Chris, I hope someone you miss will come home. Lily

If I find someone, I'll never let him go.

There will be no departed for me.

Such a powerful write written with so much feeling........Kathy NZ

Hi Yankee.....You'd love the Hokianga. It's a shallow harbour with sand bars stopping any boats/ships entering unless suitable in shallow water, but once in the 1800's there was a boat builders there, using the Kauri trees floated down from the local forest as Henry the 8th used oak trees floated to a spot on the Thames where his naval ships were built.
I have a special bond with the area but like the rest of west coast of NZ, many ships became wrecks.
Raised on the Thames I realised the link with the town a few miles from where I was raised, but from a seafarer family I recall the Goodwin Sands history and wrecks. I do of course write social history. Kathy