Sea Rovers’ Haunts in Sunny Bays

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 17 (Supplement)

Sea Rovers’ Haunts in Sunny Bays

WHAT makes pleasure sailing so popular in Auckland and keeps it so? Perhaps the most comprehensive answer in brief form would be to say the amazing scope for alluring (raises. In perfect conditions no outdoor Pleasure could be more entrancing than a cruise from the doorstep of Auckland city to Awaroa Bay by way °f the Tamaki Channel, between a chain of trim islands and a far-spread-ing mainland, revealing the march of Auckland’s urban progress. This is a favourite cruise, not only because of its diversity of pleasant scenes, but because of the scope it gives for ideal Picnicking after anchorage in the landlocked bay cosily folded in the arms °f winsome Waiheke. There, in the late summer afternoon, the sea-lane tovers make snug for the night and fhjoy an outing that has no rival on land. That js only one of a hundred simitar delights and in its pleasant feap* ls typical of all the Gulf resorts. Farther afield choice of pleasure may given to many other attractive haunts. There are. for example, the various bays at the Great Barrier aland, the innumerable indentations ~ong the Coromandel Coast and the out of alluring points and anchorages n the coastline north and south of l “e entrance to the Hauraki Gulf.

Bere is a list of a number of Popular cruising runs and instances: — Miles WLIXGTOX BAY .... 7 BOMB BAY (Motutapu) - Oi BATIATIA (Waiheke) .. 11 OXBROA IS i BA.RABTAI ISi BPCKY BAY (Waiheke) U Oh BTAXGI (Waiheke) .. 16 AWaroa BAY 16 COWES BAY 203 MAX-O'-WAR BAY . . . . 22 ISLAXD .... 28 BAHVRAXGI HEADS .. 33 £ COROMAXDEL 36 OMAHA COVE 3S IBAMES 42 WARKWORTH }2 Or. BARRIER ISLAXD .. 4* BBRCVRY ISLAXD .. 39 w &A.NGAREI . .9.5 BVBBBLL . . '* . 142 tavraxga 143 4 "BAXGAROA 16S