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A busy day

We got quite a lot done today and had a very pleasant surprise.

The mornings started with a big clean up and some fixing. My first chore was to fix the toilet that Sam will be using. We’ve had a replacement pump for months but as noone has been using that head I’ve never got […]

More Rain

There is hope. Perhaps by Christmas the rain will have stopped. It’s dominating our lives and pinning us in.

Helen and I escaped for a bit yesterday and went shopping for some basics and a few Xmas gifts for our friends kids who are visiting on Xmas day. No surprises but we bumped into friends […]

A somewhat moist day in Whangarei

Curry last night was delicious. We’d recommend the place – the Aroma on Vine Street. Not the best ever but the best we’ve had in a while. We also got pretty lucky in that we didn’t get rained on.

But it did piss down overnight. And this morning. And at various times throughout the day.

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Whangarei

The weather continued to be miserable. We also got a call from Whangarei marina letting us know a slot on the dock was coming available Friday afternoon. We didn’t get off the boat on Thursday and waking up this morning (Friday) we saw the mountain we wanted to climb shrouded in cloud. Our minds were […]

Taurikura Bay

Keen to ensure all the crayfish we’d caught would not be mobbed by octopus I set out at 6:30am to retrieve the trap. I discovered that two of the fish frames we’d hung inside the trap had completely gone and the other 3 had been stripped to the bone by overnight critters. And the total […]