The most perfect day, a cloudless sky (mostly) and a lovely temperature. Stunning scenery — the first time I’ve used that word in the blog, but it is. We moored in the main bay and tendered to Waitangi, from there we took the shuttle bus to Pahia and thence a ferry to Russell (the original capital of NZ in the 1840s.) We had a snack lunch in the Duke of Marlborough hotel overlooking the bay and met Neil Oliver who is making a “Coast New Zealand” series for BBC2. Around 100 porpoises accompanied the sail away in the evening.