It was a very pleasant sail through most of the bay of Islands to tigh-up at
the Customs dock (photo included) in the small town of Opua. I had faxed,
emailed and radioed ahead to NZ Customs when I would be arriving but forgot
about the time change so they had already gone home on Sunday. No hot shower
until Monday morning until after we were cleared in by Immigration,
Quarantine and Customs. Mark and Sue came in just after us so we made a
night of eating and drinking most of the items thay were going to be taken
away by the agricultural inspector the next morning. Their list is quite
extensive. All the officials were vey friendly and we had a great time going
through the food lockers.
The brigentine SOREN LARSON (see photo) came in Tuesday next to the ferry
dock (Ferry photo included).