The Great Mercury Reccie

 




















The Wild Weather Report - Mimu is in the middle of that circle and purple/red means HUGE wind and is the reason why we are staying put.  Looks like a window will open for us Wednesday to sneak through the Colville Channel and then its downhill to Auckland.



What a beautiful bottom Mimu!! Farewell, we'll be back




 
















Off to explore Great Mercury.  We buzzed along, on the plane bouncing over small wind whipped waves into Michael Fay's harbour. We spied a yacht moored there to visit.  Chatted to a young couple off on a sailing adventure around NZ waiting out the weather like us. 





















A landing and now to explore. Wet feet but what's an adventure without wet feet!


























Looking South East. The scenes that awaited us as we climbed over a high point.  This is the east side of the island (we are moored on the west) and the wild ocean view was spectacular.  Wind was pumping!!!
















The Skipper deep in concentration .. the dying art of splicing a rope  ....
















No such thing as cabin fever on Mimu!! Plenty of blogs to write and books to read.  Each of us has read at least two and onto the third! 

Comments

  1. Lucky9 June 2021 at 09:45

    My goodness what beautiful views!!!
    How can you appreciate the comfort of warm dry feet if they don’t get wet on an adventure every now and again? Lolxx

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