It was another beautiful, sunny day with no wind when we woke up. Sally made tea and toast, while Robyn made fruit salad and got the milk, cereal and yoghurt. (It’s not a typo, they spell it with an “h” here.) Rested and full, we were ready for day 2.
We met up with our guide and the rest of our group on the beach around 9am. To kill some time, we went for a walk down the beach. As we were walking, we found a starfish in the surf! It’s not like any of the other starfish that I’ve seen before. We think it’s a reef starfish.
Time to get back on the water, which was much calmer. We paddled around Boundary Bay, Frenchman Bay, Pinnacle Island, Sandfly Bay and stopped for lunch at Bark Bay. One of the bays we paddled past had a house on beach that sold for $14M (NZD). The owner had a helipad built so he could just helicopter there, rather than paddle. How nice. The goal for today was to reach the marine reserve to 
paddle among the sea lions that lived there. After lunch, we crossed Tonga Roadstead to get to Tonga Island, where the sea lions live. We saw lots of sea lions and 1-year old sea lion pups sunning themselves on the rocks, swimming in the water and hanging upside down in the water with their butts and rear flippers sticking out. There was one sea lion that chased away another sea lion that tried to approach his rock. They swam right under our kayak! And boy are we glad they didn’t tip us over. After the marine reserve, we headed to Onetehuti Beach and caught a water taxi back to Marahau.
It was another beautiful, sunny day with no wind when we woke up. Sally made tea and toast, while Robyn made fruit salad and got the milk, cereal and yoghurt. (It’s not a typo, they spell it with an “h” here.) Rested and full, we were ready for day 2. 
paddle among the sea lions that lived there. After lunch, we crossed Tonga Roadstead to get to 
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