Day 1 – Out at sea

November 8, 2022 at 12:25 am

After quarantine of our expedition equipment in Invercargill we drove everything up to Dunedin to load it on the Evohe yesterday.

In the DOC quarantine store in Invercargill the day before. All gear checked and packed (mostly in buckets)

There is no rush to get out of port so Thomas takes the morning to run some final errands before the entire team assembles aboard the Evohe around 11am.

Dropping the lines and off we go.

It is a warm, summery day. At 12.30pm we finally launch in the Bounty-Antipodes Islands 2022 Expedition.

In the Evohe wheelhouse going past Ravensbourne in Otago Harbour.

We clear Taiaroa Head at 3pm and head east towards the open ocean where some 800km behind the horizon a cluster of exposed Granit islands covered in seabirds awaits our arrival in a couple of day.

Out at sea with the Otago coastline in our backs.