The weather forecast today is for a mostly cloudy day with a few showers from the afternoon and northeasterlies.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 20 and an overnight low of 15 degrees. Humidity is 90 per cent.

Low tide is at 10.30am and high tide at 4.40pm. There's a sea swell of .3m, which will be rising over the next 24 hours, with a sea temperature of 19 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.31pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 8 and 10am, and between 9 and 11pm.

In NZ history on this day in 1806 Moehanga became the first Māori to visit England. Moehanga of Ngāpuhi became the first recorded Māori visitor to England when the whaler Ferret berthed in London. Moehanga (or Te Mahanga) had boarded the Ferret when it visited the Bay of Islands late in 1805.

In 1893 Premier John Ballance died. Ballance was the first Liberal premier. He laid the foundation for a government that was widely seen as making New Zealand ‘the social laboratory of the world'.

In world history on this day in 1978 the Afghanistan revolution began. In 1989 protesting students took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

Today is the birthday of Edward Gibbon. Born in 1737, he was a historian and wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'.

It's also the birthday of Samuel F.B. Morse. He was born in 1791 and was the inventor of the telegraph and the Morse code, and once wrote "It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country."

To get involved in some of the many activities happening around the Bay, please check out our What's on page.

Have a great day!