April 13-18, 2015
After the short holiday at Urupukapuka Island, we had a few days back in Opua preparing for our upcoming boat guests.
Logbook – April 13, 2015 (Waitata to Opua)
Passage Log Highlights
- 0809 Engines on
- 0818 Depart
- 1026 Arrive Opua, engines off
Daily Notes
- Fuel dock for water
- Boys play Xbox on Nirvana
Logbook – April 14, 2015 (Opua)
Daily Notes
- D/T – Paihia – groceries & gas
- Boys – play on shore w/ Nautilus and Nirvana. B wins dance party.
Logbook – April 15, 2015 (Opua)
Nothing reported in logbook
Logbook – April 16, 2015 (Opua)
Daily Notes
- Medical seminar
- “Monk project” with Nautilus
This requires some explanation. Flash back to well before we left California. I have an affection for rare and special things, for example, like limited edition Belgian Trappist Monk beer. I read an article somewhere that this beer is not typically sold in the U.S. but for a limited time it would be. I had to register on a website to get on a list and I won! It wasn’t really a competition, but don’t burst my bubble, I won! I was able to buy 2 4-backs at Total Wine. We drank a couple of them with Marcus and Robin when they visited before we set sail, and then the rest of them went in the beer storage section of Exodus’s hull, and there just never seemed to an occasion special enough to drink them, plus they aren’t really warm weather beers, so as the temperature dropped in New Zealand the time was getting exactly right. One evening hanging out on Exodus with our dear Belgian friends, Hans and Katrien, Hans started waxing nostalgic for this amazing beer made by Trappist Monks that you can only get in Belgium. I cannot over-emphasize what an amazing moment it was after I rummaged around in the hull for a moment or two and came out with these beers and nonchalantly said, “Like these?”
Logbook – April 17-18, 2015 (Opua)
Nothing reported in logbook
I don’t actually know what day this photo was taken. The event isn’t documented in the logbook, and even worse, a few months later in Fiji I will permanently damage the portable hard drive where I kept all the photos and they weren’t backed up so all I have from this time to about May are the photos I uploaded to Facebook. I cried that day.
Gresham Family Exodus 