Yesterday was pretty much filled with fixing the water maker and eating well. I started the morning with cornflakes – the Kelloggs kind. You can get them in Fiji but they’re really expensive so we skipped them. Now we’re back in New Zealand they’re back on the breakfast table.<\/p>\n

Next we tackled the water maker. I can’t replace the end cap to the high pressure tube without removing the water maker from it’s mount. This is a two person job and very awkward requiring arms to be bent around all sorts of corners to reach almost untouchable nuts and bolts. By the end of the morning we had the unit off and the end cap replaced. I did have to hire the car again to get some plumbers compound to prevent a leak from a compression joint. But by lunchtime we had a successful test.<\/p>\n

Lunch was smoked salmon and brie on some delicious whole grain bread. Heaven.<\/p>\n

After lunch we decided to go for a brief walk around the development here before returning to the water maker to remount it into it’s proper position. That took some more swearing and cursing and retrieving dropped items from the bilge but we made it. Job done. I did manage to get confirmation from Spectra that the new end caps were unlikely to fail so spares are not required.<\/p>\n

Our evening meal was fillet steaks with portobello mushrooms and asparagus. And red wine of course. We treated ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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