Sunday 23 August 2015

The Bounty Of The Sea

Who: Annette and Shirley in Ciao
Where: Near Duders Beach, Maraetai. We put in opposite Umupuia Marae.
When: On the only grey day between two sunny ones - Saturday 22 August, 2015.



The Bounty Of The Sea


'Twas Saturday, hip hip hooray
And both of us were free
What better way to spend the day
Than heading out to sea?

Behind the clouds, the sun was bright
(We think, we couldn't see -)
But what the matter? Waitemata
Called us out to sea.

The wind was wailing, time for sailing
But it was in our faces.
The orca swam and milled around
- In other, far-off places.

We turned around to hoist the sails
To meet a sudden calm.
Oh well, to bob in still, no swell,
Has never done us harm.

Then to our favourite mussel spot
To harvest for a feed
Beneath the scunge and grimy gunge
Our bounty of the sea!

So all in all, a splendid day
Of orca, wind and sun
What we don't know is quite why no
More of our friends will come.


So, in a nutshell, the weather wasn't great, the orca stayed ever-elusive, the mussels in our favourite harvesting location were covered in gunge, (but they cleaned up well and tasted great,) and the wind died as we turned to sail with it. BUT we got Ciao on the water for the first time in a while, enjoyed lunch on an isolated beach and loved being outside on the water. It's very hard to have a boring paddle. :)

Duders Point up ahead



Good spot for lunch and a spot of tea



Socks are great for keeping cold feet warm. That's how they're used, right?

ArTEA farTEA shot



Orca!! Down there - somewhere - maybe. Dang.





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