What a difference the sun makes. We woke this morning and there it was with a light breeze blowing. Now we had to do the walk. Once more we crossed the river on the little ferry to Ferry Landing and proceeded up the hill to Ngato Pa site (a pa is a fortified Maori village usually on top of a hill). We then made our way along the coast to Shakespeare Cliff Historic Reserve. This is about a 3 hour return journey and took us past Front Beach and Flaxmill Bay a sheltered bay which was obviously a favourite mooring for passing yachts, and up through dense woodland to Lonely Bay overlooking Cooks Beach. It was then quite a haul up to the lookout and Shakespeare Cliff. We were then fortunate enough to come across an opening in the woodland that almost looked like a formal garden and here overlooking the Bay and out to the Pacific Ocean we had our lunch. By now we were getting a bit warm so once down near the beach we looked out for a suitable spot and stripped off, Pete went for a swim and I went for a paddle. What bliss there were only 2 other people on the beach. It was then on our way and back to the ferry. We’re promised more of the same weather tomorrow but we are on the move again and off to the Bay of Islands.
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