Kenepuru Sound - Portage Bay

We awoke to an overcast sky and gentle winds so as usual our day started with a swim, I wanted to focus on my breathing to increase my endurance.  Jo joined me after a bit of persuasion and we returned pleased with ourselves for braving the elements and doing well.

After breakfast we left for Titirangi Bay via Forsyth Bay, we stopped for a brief fish at Horseshoe Bay on our way, we only caught one gurnard and two spotted shark.  The debris in the water (branches, logs, processed timber and twigs etc) was a real obstacle course and at times I had to pull the engines into neutral then drift through the tide lines of debris that were too random to track through at any speed.  It would seem recent extreme weather events have left their mark all through the Sounds, there is no way I would navigate these waters at night!

We passsed through Allen Passage and made our way into Titirangi Bay, we could see why everyone likes it here, this is probably the best beach we have seen down here.  We would have anchored here for the night but the wind was in the wrong direction for a comfortable night at anchor so we tucked into Hikoekoea Bay.  Just one single deserted Bach all shut up.  We could see that storm surge had washed dead wood right up to the steps of the Bach!  We grabbed a mooring and had a comfortable night preparing for our trip tomorrow after another fish which again delivered little.

I went ashore to walk the beach looking for plastic waste washed up and was really pleased to find none at all, only a child’s Jandle (flip flop) that had been very well worn.