The Bay of Islands.

There followed a train run through via Kawakawa to Opua, the deep water loading port of the Bay of Islands. Launch travel again, this time on more open water, past the celebrated mission station of, Paihia with its memories of those grand pioneer brothers of the Rongo-pai gospel—Henry Williams and William Williams—into Russell town, basking on its shingly half-moon of beach in famous Kororareha Bay. The great story land of the north this; a book would scarce suffice to tell its romantic legends and its sometimes page 39 tragic history. There was time to view the oldest church in New Zealand and for the more energetic to climb the hill to the flagstaff on Maiki hill before the good dinner that wound up a wonderful day.