After spending noisy nights with raucous roosters, we spent a night in the foreshore reserve carpark, as we had heard that a mysterious ghost ship had washed up on Brunsy Beach, (see newspaper photo). So sun breaking over crystal blue sea horizon, Bilbo and Basho went for a little foray up the beach, in search of the ghost ship, not to be sighted. So here is the mystery, the yacht "Scotch Bonnett" left New Zealand, last November and ran into a wild storm in the Tasman Sea, the yacht was demasted, subsequently the occupants put out a mayday distress call, and were winched off the yacht by a rescue chopper. The abandoned vessel drifted aimlessly for a month in the Tasman, before it was sighted by a passing cruise ship the "Sun Princess", which searched the
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