THE BAY OF ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
This is our last post as tomorrow we fly home from Auckland. This area is gorgeous as you can see. The 1st photo is as the ship came into this bay a week ago. We toured the Waitangi Treaty House where the Maori treaty was signed in 1840. Then the ship sailed to Auckland where the Shadow bunkered overnight in the harbor much to the Captains dismay, but we got this view of the city all night. Next we headed north out of the city and stumbled into this fabulous B&B run by 2 Americans and with a room and view to die for. The next day we discovered that Bill’s back, which started to be tight toward the end of the cruise, was now worrisome. So for the last 6 days we have been in plan B. We reached Paihia where Bill has been rehabbing and resting for 5 days. We took the ferry over to Russell (overview with busy harbor) and other than that Sally has taken a flight to Cape Reinga (see pictures of the lighthouse and the coast from the plane) and I also took a short drive over the million-dollar view road. But don’t feel too bad as the sunset view is what we see from our motel room and patio, we have enjoyed that so much and the owners couldn’t have been more hospitable and helpful. Today we are flying to Auckland instead of driving and Bill we hope will be ready for the flight tomorrow. Thanks for following our trip as we somehow feel still connected this way. All our love and we are anxious to talk to you all.