The water taxi took us along the red path in this photo:
We paddled back to Anchorage Bay for our water taxi back to civilization.
We had a great lunch on the beach--fresh made coffee!--and spent some time sailing the kayaks. The sailing path appears in yellow.
Our instructor, Steve, had us put the kayaks together as a raft. Ben and I had a kayak at the right end and another fellow and his friend had the kayak at the left. Lucy and Emily's kayak was in the middle and their job was to hold the raft together.
Steve tied a tarp to two paddles and the other kayaker and Terry held the paddles up while Benjamin and another kayaker held the front of the tarp down. The strong north wind drove us along and saved us a lot of paddling. We were able to return to Anchorage. Without the sailing we would have stopped short and waited for the water taxi farther north.
Then, while we waited for the water taxi, we started chatting with the German fellow who was in the 3rd kayak. "Yes, I was on Waiheke Island a few weeks ago. It is beautiful. I walked all the way from Matiatia to Stoney Batter."
"You walked," Lucy exclaimed, "my, how did you get back?"
"Well an American family picked me up" he said and then took a good look at us. "You picked me up!"
Yes, we found Otto the backpacker again and spent a day kayaking with him. He was alone at Stoney Batter but had managed to meet a woman who was now traveling around New Zealand with him.
We had to get a group photo for the blog.
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