It's Monday and Tim Taylor is back in his office, the cockpit of his kayak, as he paddles into the last 1200km of his 5000km mission to kayak round the country in one voyage.

He crossed the Raglan bar heading north this morning after spending the weekend in the coastal community only two hours from Tauranga.

Tim Taylor.

It was a weekend with the mates, says mum Lyn Taylor.

'Grant Dyson, who's writing his book, went over Friday night and some of his mates went over Saturday,” says Lyn.

'It's probably the closest he's been to Tauranga for a long time.”

She saw Tim at Kawhia last week, just after he made the bar crossing with a swell working. It was the first time in his trip that Tim put his helmet on says Lyn.

Raglan entrance was flat, and the marine forecast for the sea area Raglan today is for light winds and for a southwest of two metres and a northwest swell of one metre easing.

Tim's hoping to make the bar crossing at Port Waikato today, says Lyn.