Pine Island

Toketie is now on a mooring off lovely little Pine Island....it is certainly nice to be floating and swinging again.....new solar panels are putting out tremendously.....gotta love that hole in the ozone layer.....:)

bottom paint problem

....seems the epoxy layer is failing....we will have to go back in the water and take Toketie around to Whangarei where they can sandblast the bottom and recoat it......we think of it as time to have that new roof put on the house......

Ashby's boatyard - Opua NZ

...no more gentle rocking to the waves for a while....

the fire pit.....

.....feast for the masses....the volcanic rocks have been fired all day and are ready to be dumped into the pit.....the food is placed over them and the pit is covered.....

Hunga Fire Pit!

....and mussels too....

Hunga Fire Pit!

......meat for the masses....

Russell Tall Ships!

jellyfish

...lots of these critters around....