Thursday - Eastern route

Depart Havelock Marina at 9.30am. Cruise out for 30 minutes to our first stop at Whatanihi. This jetty serves a small community of families who wait anxiously for their mail. Here you will meet one of the young children who are part of the Correspondence Schooling Program.

From there we cross to the Eastern side of Pelorus Sound and on to Nikau Bay. Here you will see the first of many Mussel farms. Learn what they mean for the Town of Havelock and how they grow and are harvested.

As we deliver to the places along the way you will see how the once large sheep farms have returned to bush.

Highlights include seeing the Gannet Colony with the parent birds feeding their young chicks, perhaps see dolphins, penquins or seals. We will visit the Kingfish Farm and feed the fish there.

On the way home we stop off at Jacobs Bay and go ashore. Here you can wander amongst the last remaining area of virgin forest which was set aside as a Reserve in the 1860’s. Learn who Dillon Bell was and why he was so importand to this place.

Return to Havelock approx. 3.30pm.