We left early to walk into Paihia along the coast. The path was not walkable at high tide so Graham made sure we left very early. We were going out on an 80 foot maxi racing yacht called Lion New Zealand. It was an ex Whitbread Round the World racing yacht and had won the Sydney to Hobart race some years ago, anyway it was very large and very fast. The morning was a bit dull when we arrived in Paihia, the 2 cruise ships were unloading their passengers into the t...

The morning run around Russell wasn't too strenuous, we avoided the hills and saved those for the morning walk. The walk was to the viewpoint over the lovely bay with some lovely old schooners setting sail with day trippers. A very colourful parrot appeared walking up the road, there has been a great variety of birds to see but like Australia other other wildlife has been missing, apart from rabbits. We failed to find a geocache on the nearby beach because th...