We've nothing exciting to report here after our first few days back in Opua. We have, however, had a couple drinks and dinners out at the Opua Cruising Club where we've reunited with many of our cruising friends and swapped stories about the season 'up in the islands'. I've also done 8 loads of laundry - in washing machines and dryers instead of by hand - yeah! We've cleaned up the boat a bit and have moved a bunch of stuff off of the boat and into our storage unit - sails, life raft, ditch bag, medical bag, drogue, etc. - stuff that we won't need to use while in New Zealand for the next 6 months. We got our car out of storage and have wheels again. Driving on the left-hand side of the road isn't nearly as daunting this season as it was last year. On my first drive into Paihia on Friday I looked in my rearview mirror and I had 6 cars stacked up behind me. I hadn't realized that I was driving slower than the speed limit because it felt fast to me after cruising along at 6 knot in the boat for the last 6 months, so I sped up as not to get rear-ended!
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