On Monday (12 April) we were invited to go with Michael, Catherine and family to see their oyster farms. It was a lovely sunny day so we met up at Opua and travelled on their lovely big barge for the tour - around the Bay of Islands. The barge has a powerful outboard motor so we travelled quite fast!! The children were allowed to steer some of the way - great excitement! Michael had to inspect the oysters for quality as they were to be harvested the next day. You can see the experts (and some non-experts!) studying them. We stopped for lunch on a deserted beach. Cathy had brought some yummy food so we all tucked in. Then we went to try our luck at fishing. Jason caught a big kahawai BUT it escaped just
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