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1) Rinca Is. just south of Komodo and our 1st. landfall after Kupang
2) Jean, Sam, Bailey, Wulan, Peter and the Medana Bay staff at Pulau Lombok
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Photos again
1) Up close and personal Kakadu National Park Northern Territory
2) Course across Carpentaria on the chartplotter. Watching the boat move across the screen was like watching paint dry!!
Photos
The first 2 photos didn't show the titles - the 1st one is sailing across the top of Australia (it wasn't always like this!!) and the 2nd is the GPS reading moments after we had crossed the Equator just south of Singapore - note the latitude reading!
Doings from Downunder
Hi to all again,
Well, Christmas has been and gone for another year. We spent Christmas Day with Perry's girlfriend's family at Red Beach just north of Auckland and had a very enjoyable day. Then Jean's old friend Sara had come to NZ from Murwullimbah in northern NSW where she lives with her son Ricardo. It was good to catch up as the last time we had seen them was Christmas 2011 when we travelled down there from Bundaberg. Sara stayed with us in Milford at New Year and we stayed up until 0300 on New Year's Day reminiscing. Later we saw them again when we caught the ferry from Devonport to Auckland and met at a restaurant on Wynyard Wharf. There was also an opportunity for Perry to meet Sara again after many years when Sara lived for a few months with Jean and Perry ironically just around the corner from where we are now - 30 something years ago. Very sad to have to say goodbye again because it will probably be some time before we see them again. Still, they may visit us sometime soon in SE Asia.
We have found a great osteopath in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore and have both been having treatment - Jean for her hips and Jim for knees. We have concluded that with all the rolling we did for two and a half months travelling from Cairns to Darwin had knocked us around more than we realised and Jean had been despairing of ever coming right, but she is now almost back as she was. Combined with the sinus operation in Malaysia, she will be fighting fit. Watch out "Tintin"!!!
Also on the medical front, Jim has had all the usual tests for his Diabetes Type II and happily they have all come back normal or better than normal. Cholesterol, blood pressure, an eye retina test and sugar levels are all fine. And the knees are improving too. Must keep up the exercises though - something Jim is not good at! The only "bad" thing is that, while he lost 10 kgs. coming through Indonesia, 90% of it is back on with all the good NZ food. Still, that will change once we are back in the tropics.
We have been again back in Whangarei staying with Hamish and Sara. We were invited to dinner on board "Sina" during our visit with Noel and Litara and our friends Richard and Pauline. "Sina" is a Kauri timber built 53' yawl (Mudie design) built by Noel who is a master wooden boat shipwright. She is a masterpiece and Noel and Litara circumnavigated on her some years ago during which they rounded Cape Horn for the 2nd. time. Noel also did much of the refit work on "Tiare Taporo III" in 2008/09. Litara comes from Samoa and is a Matai (Chief) of her village there. We all have to defer to her chiefly status!!
We travelled up to Whangarei via the Kai Iwi Lakes which are on the west coast more or less at the same latitude as Whangarei. We left Perry, Tracie and Carter there with Tracie's family to camp there for a week with Perry's fearsome skiboat - powered by a 350 V8 Chev. Then we took one of their cars for our visit to Whangarei. Then, after a week in Whangarei during which time we caught up some more with people we hadn't seen for some time we went back to Kai Iwi (about 90 mins drive from Whangarei) to be with them for the day and to help with dismantling the camp. Jean did a circuit round the bay on the "Shark" behind the speedboat which she said was an experience!! Camping these days is just like taking the kitchen sink on your back and so the dismantling takes some time. Not to mention cramming it all into 2 4WD's plus Peapod - oops sorry - that should be Carter who has much more in the form of accoutrements than his small size would suggest. Still that's always the way - the smaller the personage the more paraphernalia seems to be necessary!!
We arrived back in Auckland last night (Sat.) and spent today sleeping in, having brunch at a local cafe within walking distance, and cleaning the cars out of all the Kai Iwi sand that had been transported back to Auckland!! Perry left tonight for Europe to further check out his potential new job - we will see him back in 10 days or so.
Jean continues to enjoy her grandson, Carter who is now almost sitting up and very alert. He appears to have enjoyed his camping holiday and is in fine form. Jim's youngest daughter Charlotte and Jon came up from Christchurch with their two girls, Lucia and Elsie. We spent a very pleasant day with them on St. Heliers Bay Beach near where they were staying in Charlotte's cousin's house. A few days later they called in to see us in Milford on their way back from a picnic day at Wenderholme, just north of Auckland. Haven't seen the other grandson again yet. Callum is no doubt leaping ahead just like his contemporary, Carter and we will be catching up in the next day or so. And to top it all off, there are two 70th. birthday parties coming up in quick succession. From now until we leave on Feb. 11th. the time is just going to disappear. More later.......
Lotsaluv from us
Jim and Jean, Auckland, New Zealand
www.tiaretaporo3.blogspot.com
P.S. Hopefully there will be some photos at last on the blogsite in the next day or so.
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Well, Christmas has been and gone for another year. We spent Christmas Day with Perry's girlfriend's family at Red Beach just north of Auckland and had a very enjoyable day. Then Jean's old friend Sara had come to NZ from Murwullimbah in northern NSW where she lives with her son Ricardo. It was good to catch up as the last time we had seen them was Christmas 2011 when we travelled down there from Bundaberg. Sara stayed with us in Milford at New Year and we stayed up until 0300 on New Year's Day reminiscing. Later we saw them again when we caught the ferry from Devonport to Auckland and met at a restaurant on Wynyard Wharf. There was also an opportunity for Perry to meet Sara again after many years when Sara lived for a few months with Jean and Perry ironically just around the corner from where we are now - 30 something years ago. Very sad to have to say goodbye again because it will probably be some time before we see them again. Still, they may visit us sometime soon in SE Asia.
We have found a great osteopath in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore and have both been having treatment - Jean for her hips and Jim for knees. We have concluded that with all the rolling we did for two and a half months travelling from Cairns to Darwin had knocked us around more than we realised and Jean had been despairing of ever coming right, but she is now almost back as she was. Combined with the sinus operation in Malaysia, she will be fighting fit. Watch out "Tintin"!!!
Also on the medical front, Jim has had all the usual tests for his Diabetes Type II and happily they have all come back normal or better than normal. Cholesterol, blood pressure, an eye retina test and sugar levels are all fine. And the knees are improving too. Must keep up the exercises though - something Jim is not good at! The only "bad" thing is that, while he lost 10 kgs. coming through Indonesia, 90% of it is back on with all the good NZ food. Still, that will change once we are back in the tropics.
We have been again back in Whangarei staying with Hamish and Sara. We were invited to dinner on board "Sina" during our visit with Noel and Litara and our friends Richard and Pauline. "Sina" is a Kauri timber built 53' yawl (Mudie design) built by Noel who is a master wooden boat shipwright. She is a masterpiece and Noel and Litara circumnavigated on her some years ago during which they rounded Cape Horn for the 2nd. time. Noel also did much of the refit work on "Tiare Taporo III" in 2008/09. Litara comes from Samoa and is a Matai (Chief) of her village there. We all have to defer to her chiefly status!!
We travelled up to Whangarei via the Kai Iwi Lakes which are on the west coast more or less at the same latitude as Whangarei. We left Perry, Tracie and Carter there with Tracie's family to camp there for a week with Perry's fearsome skiboat - powered by a 350 V8 Chev. Then we took one of their cars for our visit to Whangarei. Then, after a week in Whangarei during which time we caught up some more with people we hadn't seen for some time we went back to Kai Iwi (about 90 mins drive from Whangarei) to be with them for the day and to help with dismantling the camp. Jean did a circuit round the bay on the "Shark" behind the speedboat which she said was an experience!! Camping these days is just like taking the kitchen sink on your back and so the dismantling takes some time. Not to mention cramming it all into 2 4WD's plus Peapod - oops sorry - that should be Carter who has much more in the form of accoutrements than his small size would suggest. Still that's always the way - the smaller the personage the more paraphernalia seems to be necessary!!
We arrived back in Auckland last night (Sat.) and spent today sleeping in, having brunch at a local cafe within walking distance, and cleaning the cars out of all the Kai Iwi sand that had been transported back to Auckland!! Perry left tonight for Europe to further check out his potential new job - we will see him back in 10 days or so.
Jean continues to enjoy her grandson, Carter who is now almost sitting up and very alert. He appears to have enjoyed his camping holiday and is in fine form. Jim's youngest daughter Charlotte and Jon came up from Christchurch with their two girls, Lucia and Elsie. We spent a very pleasant day with them on St. Heliers Bay Beach near where they were staying in Charlotte's cousin's house. A few days later they called in to see us in Milford on their way back from a picnic day at Wenderholme, just north of Auckland. Haven't seen the other grandson again yet. Callum is no doubt leaping ahead just like his contemporary, Carter and we will be catching up in the next day or so. And to top it all off, there are two 70th. birthday parties coming up in quick succession. From now until we leave on Feb. 11th. the time is just going to disappear. More later.......
Lotsaluv from us
Jim and Jean, Auckland, New Zealand
www.tiaretaporo3.blogspot.com
P.S. Hopefully there will be some photos at last on the blogsite in the next day or so.
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Friday, 13 December 2013
News from Kiwiland
Hi to all,
We thought it was time to regale you with more news! Quite a lot has happened in the past few weeks. We left Danga Bay on Nov. 26th. and had a seamless ride to Changi Airport in Singapore. Cost was SGD60 but worth every cent. We never even had to get out of the taxi. We arrived back in NZ on the morning of the 27th. after a 10 hour flight from Singapore to Auckland and were met by Perry, Jean's son. Then it was but a short ride to their home in Milford on the North Shore where we were to stay and Jean met her first grandchild, Carter James. An emotional time, particularly as Carter is her 1st grandchild. May there be many more!! Wonder whether Perry and Tracie are reading this!! Not to be outdone, Jim is also a new grandfather. Callum Patrick was born a few weeks later than Carter and Jim has yet to make the acquaintance with his 4th. grandchild!! This state of affairs has now been rectified and it was great to see his mother Rozanne again after many months. Apart from being a mother to 2 bouncing boys, she also holds down a senior teaching job at one of Auckland's most prestigious private girls schools and is a recent university graduate with a masters degree in education.
Sadly we are still involved with the fallout from the appalling business with "Tintin" and "Kealba". As a result we did have reservations about leaving our boat "Tiare Taporo III" after the physical assault on Jim and the later direct threat to us and our yacht by the gutless and anonymous leaving of a computer generated note on our foredeck reading "REMEMBER THE RAINBOW WARRIOR".
It now appears that "Kealba" is trying to suggest that we were somehow at fault in the incident at Kupang under some regulations governing boats at anchor. They don't appear to realise however that a boat dragging its anchor is legally not anchored and is considered to be "underway". We were not dragging and have NEVER dragged. Thanks to the Rocna. There are of course a whole lot of different regulations governing vessels underway - chief amongst those is the requirement for the Master and crew to be on board!! "Kealba" was unattended when she collided with us and so contravened those regulations. All common sense but certain people appear lacking in that commodity - no doubt in a futile attempt to evade their clear responsibility. We will be hauling out in east Johore when we return and to repair the damage it will almost certainly be necessary to remove the affected structures from the boat. This will at the very least incur labour cost. With a cursory look at the boat right now, one could be forgiven for thinking that the damage is negligible but when one realises the implications of the scope of repair work the picture changes.
We hope that "Kealba" assumes its responsibility and adequately compensates us for the damage they caused. But there has been no response from them to date and we have to say it isn't looking hopeful. However, we have in the meantime imposed a commercial lien on them which may well be influential in changing their attitude. As for "Tintin", we have reported their disgusting assault on us at Danga Bay to the Johor Police and they have passed the details on to the other state police and the Maritime Police. We hope that we never have the misfortune to ever see them again but the cruising world is a small one. We are ever mindful of their last threat which was "if you ever come into an anchorage where I am anchored, WATCH YOUR BACK". We have been talking to all our friends and acquaintances here in Whangarei, many of whom are part of the yachting/cruising world, and they are all horrified at our experiences. It is so unusual in the cruising world that it defies belief. However, it doesn't take much here to engender derogatory and often humourous comments about Australians. Our shipwright friend here, Noel Barrot, said "keep your hands off those Aussies!" However, we have of course met some great Australians and these incidents only negatively bolster the anti Aussie/Kiwi debate - notwithstanding that "Tintin" is a Pommy boat!! "Kealba" is of course an Aussie boat.
We apologise for re-litigating all the aforementioned but it is none of our doing and would all fade into the obscurity where it belongs as long as the people at fault front up to their responsibilities.
In the meantime we have had a wonderful time in Whangarei staying with our friends Hamish and Sara. Hamish is a stainless steel fabricator and has done many jobs on foreign boats visiting Whangarei. Sara is a chef. We have Perry's car while he is in Madrid checking out a job offer. One of our primary objectives while in Whangarei was to streamline our storage unit by downsizing. The local Hospice shop has been a beneficiary!! The weather was against us for a few days at the beginning but it has since cleared up and we have now finished!! Furniture is stacked to the roof.
There was a party last Saturday night a little way south of Whangarei at Jenny Hastie's house inland from Waipu. Jenny is a cousin by marriage of Jean's and a number of Jean's family members were there to "celebrate still being alive"!! A worthwhile cause indeed! After so long and all our diverse experiences it was good to catch up. The get together was great with good conversation and an excellent NZ style BBQ with pork chops and sausages. They have a house on a hill overlooking the bright green rolling hills of dairy country. The country always looks great at this time of year with the grass absolutely emerald green after the spring rains. We stayed the night and then it was into the storage unit move again which as stated is now finished. It has been a major task but all will be much streamlined from now on. It's amazing how voyaging under sail gives one a different perspective on material possessions, and while we aren't getting rid of everything by any means, we have removed much that is of no relevance to our present situation.
A few days ago we had the pleasure of meeting Neil Scott ("Galatea") again when he passed through Whangarei after attending a wedding in Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands. We had dinner with him and his Australian friend at a restaurant here in Whangarei and again it seemed so bizarre re-living our experiences in Indonesia in such a different setting. A very pleasant evening was had by all.
Jean's health is much improved since her nose operation at the KPJ Specialist Hospital in Johor. As we've said before we cannot praise the Malaysian medical system highly enough and would recommend it to anyone. Her lower back and hips were also scanned in Malaysia and fortunately all was clear. Since being back in Whangarei she has visited an osteopath for her hip ligament problems at the Rathbone Clinic and that along with exercise has been worthwhile in the continuing recovery process. Good osteopaths seem to be thin on the ground in all of the places we have been to recently, including we have to say, Queensland. However, notable exceptions to that were the two Emmett Therapy practitioners we discovered in Cairns and later in Darwin. She has been doing some lifting with the storage unit job though and this has set her back a bit but we are hoping that Pilates and some targeted exercise should ultimately fix this.
Staying with Hamish and Sara has been very relaxed and low key - just what we needed after all the pressures of the last 4 months following on from the Kupang dragging incident. They are hospitality personified and have also lent us their trailer to assist with the moving. Hamish has just acquired a new ute and has returned from Nelson where he went to purchase it. Very flash!! And it's a Holden - that will please the Aussies, notwithstanding that unless the Aussie Govt. comes up with more than the $500 million that they currently subsidise the car industry with, GM - Holden is likely to disappear from this part of the world for good in a couple of years and we will all be driving Chevrolets instead! In fact it has now been confirmed that GMH will no longer manufacture in Australia after 2016. It is estimated that this will cost upwards of 50,000 jobs.
Being in NZ in a totally different environment and doing mundane things like moving possessions and visiting the doctor seems quite bizarre after the experiences we have had since we left Cairns 8 months ago. It almost seems as though none of it ever happened - the Queensland coast, the Gulf of Carpentaria, Darwin and its associated tides, the fuel pump packing a sad on the way to Kupang on Timor, the Komodo dragons and all the other documented experiences throughout Indonesia. It all seems unreal from this distance.
We are now back in Auckland after spending a thoroughly pleasant night with Keith (Jean's brother) and Eileen just south of Wellsford on the farm that they manage. The farm was formerly owned by Richard Izard who manufactured tungsten tipped saw blades in Wellsford and achieved notable success in exporting his saw blades world wide in the 1980's. The business is now owned by the Irwin Tool Co. of the USA. The farm is immaculate and boasts its own aircraft landing strip. There are 7 Alpacas on the farm (an experimental hobby at this stage) and we watched at 0700 as they were gently driven/led to the woolshed for their annual clipping. You have to keep your distance from Alpacas as they apparently spit and always have 100% accuracy over an impressive distance! Full in the face and all slimy with semi digested grass. Reminded Jim forcibly of the disgusting lout on "Tintin" so he was especially careful!!
On the way back into Auckland we stopped at Rozanne's house to deliver some items from the storage unit that we had earmarked for her and finally made the acquaintance of Callum Patrick Donald. A bonny wee chap indeed and we have no doubt that he will live up to his illustrious name in whatever field of endeavour he engages in.
We continued on over the harbour bridge to Milford where we will be domiciled for a few weeks now. It's good to be back but we have enjoyed our time in Whangarei.
There will be more to come in due course but in the meantime we wish all our friends a very happy Christmas and NewYear where ever you are.
With very best wishes and love from us.............
Jim and Jean
Auckland
NZ
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We thought it was time to regale you with more news! Quite a lot has happened in the past few weeks. We left Danga Bay on Nov. 26th. and had a seamless ride to Changi Airport in Singapore. Cost was SGD60 but worth every cent. We never even had to get out of the taxi. We arrived back in NZ on the morning of the 27th. after a 10 hour flight from Singapore to Auckland and were met by Perry, Jean's son. Then it was but a short ride to their home in Milford on the North Shore where we were to stay and Jean met her first grandchild, Carter James. An emotional time, particularly as Carter is her 1st grandchild. May there be many more!! Wonder whether Perry and Tracie are reading this!! Not to be outdone, Jim is also a new grandfather. Callum Patrick was born a few weeks later than Carter and Jim has yet to make the acquaintance with his 4th. grandchild!! This state of affairs has now been rectified and it was great to see his mother Rozanne again after many months. Apart from being a mother to 2 bouncing boys, she also holds down a senior teaching job at one of Auckland's most prestigious private girls schools and is a recent university graduate with a masters degree in education.
Sadly we are still involved with the fallout from the appalling business with "Tintin" and "Kealba". As a result we did have reservations about leaving our boat "Tiare Taporo III" after the physical assault on Jim and the later direct threat to us and our yacht by the gutless and anonymous leaving of a computer generated note on our foredeck reading "REMEMBER THE RAINBOW WARRIOR".
It now appears that "Kealba" is trying to suggest that we were somehow at fault in the incident at Kupang under some regulations governing boats at anchor. They don't appear to realise however that a boat dragging its anchor is legally not anchored and is considered to be "underway". We were not dragging and have NEVER dragged. Thanks to the Rocna. There are of course a whole lot of different regulations governing vessels underway - chief amongst those is the requirement for the Master and crew to be on board!! "Kealba" was unattended when she collided with us and so contravened those regulations. All common sense but certain people appear lacking in that commodity - no doubt in a futile attempt to evade their clear responsibility. We will be hauling out in east Johore when we return and to repair the damage it will almost certainly be necessary to remove the affected structures from the boat. This will at the very least incur labour cost. With a cursory look at the boat right now, one could be forgiven for thinking that the damage is negligible but when one realises the implications of the scope of repair work the picture changes.
We hope that "Kealba" assumes its responsibility and adequately compensates us for the damage they caused. But there has been no response from them to date and we have to say it isn't looking hopeful. However, we have in the meantime imposed a commercial lien on them which may well be influential in changing their attitude. As for "Tintin", we have reported their disgusting assault on us at Danga Bay to the Johor Police and they have passed the details on to the other state police and the Maritime Police. We hope that we never have the misfortune to ever see them again but the cruising world is a small one. We are ever mindful of their last threat which was "if you ever come into an anchorage where I am anchored, WATCH YOUR BACK". We have been talking to all our friends and acquaintances here in Whangarei, many of whom are part of the yachting/cruising world, and they are all horrified at our experiences. It is so unusual in the cruising world that it defies belief. However, it doesn't take much here to engender derogatory and often humourous comments about Australians. Our shipwright friend here, Noel Barrot, said "keep your hands off those Aussies!" However, we have of course met some great Australians and these incidents only negatively bolster the anti Aussie/Kiwi debate - notwithstanding that "Tintin" is a Pommy boat!! "Kealba" is of course an Aussie boat.
We apologise for re-litigating all the aforementioned but it is none of our doing and would all fade into the obscurity where it belongs as long as the people at fault front up to their responsibilities.
In the meantime we have had a wonderful time in Whangarei staying with our friends Hamish and Sara. Hamish is a stainless steel fabricator and has done many jobs on foreign boats visiting Whangarei. Sara is a chef. We have Perry's car while he is in Madrid checking out a job offer. One of our primary objectives while in Whangarei was to streamline our storage unit by downsizing. The local Hospice shop has been a beneficiary!! The weather was against us for a few days at the beginning but it has since cleared up and we have now finished!! Furniture is stacked to the roof.
There was a party last Saturday night a little way south of Whangarei at Jenny Hastie's house inland from Waipu. Jenny is a cousin by marriage of Jean's and a number of Jean's family members were there to "celebrate still being alive"!! A worthwhile cause indeed! After so long and all our diverse experiences it was good to catch up. The get together was great with good conversation and an excellent NZ style BBQ with pork chops and sausages. They have a house on a hill overlooking the bright green rolling hills of dairy country. The country always looks great at this time of year with the grass absolutely emerald green after the spring rains. We stayed the night and then it was into the storage unit move again which as stated is now finished. It has been a major task but all will be much streamlined from now on. It's amazing how voyaging under sail gives one a different perspective on material possessions, and while we aren't getting rid of everything by any means, we have removed much that is of no relevance to our present situation.
A few days ago we had the pleasure of meeting Neil Scott ("Galatea") again when he passed through Whangarei after attending a wedding in Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands. We had dinner with him and his Australian friend at a restaurant here in Whangarei and again it seemed so bizarre re-living our experiences in Indonesia in such a different setting. A very pleasant evening was had by all.
Jean's health is much improved since her nose operation at the KPJ Specialist Hospital in Johor. As we've said before we cannot praise the Malaysian medical system highly enough and would recommend it to anyone. Her lower back and hips were also scanned in Malaysia and fortunately all was clear. Since being back in Whangarei she has visited an osteopath for her hip ligament problems at the Rathbone Clinic and that along with exercise has been worthwhile in the continuing recovery process. Good osteopaths seem to be thin on the ground in all of the places we have been to recently, including we have to say, Queensland. However, notable exceptions to that were the two Emmett Therapy practitioners we discovered in Cairns and later in Darwin. She has been doing some lifting with the storage unit job though and this has set her back a bit but we are hoping that Pilates and some targeted exercise should ultimately fix this.
Staying with Hamish and Sara has been very relaxed and low key - just what we needed after all the pressures of the last 4 months following on from the Kupang dragging incident. They are hospitality personified and have also lent us their trailer to assist with the moving. Hamish has just acquired a new ute and has returned from Nelson where he went to purchase it. Very flash!! And it's a Holden - that will please the Aussies, notwithstanding that unless the Aussie Govt. comes up with more than the $500 million that they currently subsidise the car industry with, GM - Holden is likely to disappear from this part of the world for good in a couple of years and we will all be driving Chevrolets instead! In fact it has now been confirmed that GMH will no longer manufacture in Australia after 2016. It is estimated that this will cost upwards of 50,000 jobs.
Being in NZ in a totally different environment and doing mundane things like moving possessions and visiting the doctor seems quite bizarre after the experiences we have had since we left Cairns 8 months ago. It almost seems as though none of it ever happened - the Queensland coast, the Gulf of Carpentaria, Darwin and its associated tides, the fuel pump packing a sad on the way to Kupang on Timor, the Komodo dragons and all the other documented experiences throughout Indonesia. It all seems unreal from this distance.
We are now back in Auckland after spending a thoroughly pleasant night with Keith (Jean's brother) and Eileen just south of Wellsford on the farm that they manage. The farm was formerly owned by Richard Izard who manufactured tungsten tipped saw blades in Wellsford and achieved notable success in exporting his saw blades world wide in the 1980's. The business is now owned by the Irwin Tool Co. of the USA. The farm is immaculate and boasts its own aircraft landing strip. There are 7 Alpacas on the farm (an experimental hobby at this stage) and we watched at 0700 as they were gently driven/led to the woolshed for their annual clipping. You have to keep your distance from Alpacas as they apparently spit and always have 100% accuracy over an impressive distance! Full in the face and all slimy with semi digested grass. Reminded Jim forcibly of the disgusting lout on "Tintin" so he was especially careful!!
On the way back into Auckland we stopped at Rozanne's house to deliver some items from the storage unit that we had earmarked for her and finally made the acquaintance of Callum Patrick Donald. A bonny wee chap indeed and we have no doubt that he will live up to his illustrious name in whatever field of endeavour he engages in.
We continued on over the harbour bridge to Milford where we will be domiciled for a few weeks now. It's good to be back but we have enjoyed our time in Whangarei.
There will be more to come in due course but in the meantime we wish all our friends a very happy Christmas and NewYear where ever you are.
With very best wishes and love from us.............
Jim and Jean
Auckland
NZ
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