20 Dec 2013
Tagua Bay
In the morning the group took a walk in Tagua Bay through mossed and lichen-covered Rata and Dracophyllum forest to the wartime coast-watchers hut. The men’s playing cards and work instructions are still on the bench.
During lunch, we steamed up the island’s east coast to Port Ross and landed at Hardwick, the “seat of European civilisation” in the Auckland Islands. Now the settlement has only poignant relics – a graveyard, finger-posts and store sheds for castaways, and the traces of a paved road through the Rata forest.
19 Dec 2013
Sailing in the lee of Auckland Island made for a much more restful sleep during the 2nd half of the night. Everyone remained curled up for the last w…READ MORE
18 Dec 2013
Wednesday morning heralded very strong winds and low lying fog, which scrapped our plans for a Mt Honey bash. Most rolled over and stayed in their bu…READ MORE
17 Dec 2013
Tuesday broke bright and sunny with 20 knot westerlies buffeting Campbell Island and pushing puffy white clouds past at speed with a few drops of rai…READ MORE
