Barbary and Lake Taupo
On Tuesday morning we explored Lake Taupo on the historic Barbary sailboat (which unfortunately we forgot to take a picture of).
In 1926 the Barbary was built, launched and raced in California. Errol Flynn owned the Barbary at one point. As the story goes, the actor won the yacht in a card game then lost it in another card game a few years later. The Barbary cruised the world starting in 1945, making it to New Zealand on October 16, 1947. Then she went through an activist phase in the early 1970s, joining Greenpeace in anti-nuclear protest to Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This didn’t work out well for her as she wrecked in a storm in 1976. Luckily she was salvaged and restored and now lives out a peaceful retirement taking daily tours out on Lake Taupo. Below are some pictures from her deck of Lake Taupo with Tongariro National Park in the background.
The Barbary took us past Acacia Bay (where all the rich trout fisherman live), Rangitira Point and out to look at some Modern Maori Rock Carvings. These were carved in the 1970s, so they are not quite historic but beautiful nonetheless.
In 1926 the Barbary was built, launched and raced in California. Errol Flynn owned the Barbary at one point. As the story goes, the actor won the yacht in a card game then lost it in another card game a few years later. The Barbary cruised the world starting in 1945, making it to New Zealand on October 16, 1947. Then she went through an activist phase in the early 1970s, joining Greenpeace in anti-nuclear protest to Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This didn’t work out well for her as she wrecked in a storm in 1976. Luckily she was salvaged and restored and now lives out a peaceful retirement taking daily tours out on Lake Taupo. Below are some pictures from her deck of Lake Taupo with Tongariro National Park in the background.
The Barbary took us past Acacia Bay (where all the rich trout fisherman live), Rangitira Point and out to look at some Modern Maori Rock Carvings. These were carved in the 1970s, so they are not quite historic but beautiful nonetheless. 
