The windy, rainy weather doomed our sailing plans for the day.  To compensate for our cancelled plans, we drove the two hours out to Cape Palliser to perform another seal count.  At this point, I must confess to you, dear reader, that I have lied.  Last week I errantly stated that we had done a seal count at Cape Palliser when in ...

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah No text as yes, this will come, just lots and lots of photos! Enjoy Since writing the above I have found more time, so here is the text to go with the photos (though there are far too many photos and I still have more to add, this is just such a beautiful country I keep taking pictures of it) and what a thrilling week I'...

Hello all, We have uploaded some of our pictures to shutterfly. We are going to try to update this when we can. The weather was warm yesterday, but a bit windy. I went on a hunt to find some good soy products for us to use in our fajitas and settled on something that was a bit scary, but tasted okay. I miss my facon. Enjoy the pictures! http://t...

Every second week on friday or saturday, we are sailing in Wellington Harbour. Tous les 15 jours, le vendredi ou le samedi, nous faisons de la voile dans la baie de Wellington.

Oh dear Sleeping pill bad idea. hada lovely sleep but then had to be shaken awaken by the burley ferry troll like sailor man. Then I tried to drive off the ferry, it wasnt too bad but it was like trying to drive through jelly with a head full of gold fish. SO I parked in town some where and fell asleep woke up in the blazing sun in the drivers w...

Me'e'e'e'... Nova Zelandia: Quatro milhoes de habitantes, 50 milhoes de ovelhas. O que dizer de um pai's tao pequeno mas repleto de tantas belezas? Neste post vai ser dificil resumir tudo que eu fiz, vi e vivenciei por essas bandas...(bandas ali'as...que vontade de estar no Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro...). Antes de mais nada, antecipo que vou ser...

I decided to take the train down to Wellington from Hamilton to get an idea of what the North Island is like. Its incredible how much the countryside changes as you go through it. Rolling hills to volcanic mountains to glacial plains. There can't be many other countries that offer such extremes. And they say the South Island is even more spectac...

17.57 - With no work this morning I was able to lie until 11.00 which was very nice I have to say. The first thing I did more or less was to finish off my laundry which I couldn't do last night because of the shitty dryer! That done, I got ready to go out. The weather was not really good so I went back to Te Papa Tongarewa to finish off what I d...

My shell has temporarily expanded to include a hire car whilst I am here in New Zealand, so that I can see as much as possible during my three weeks here. I now realise that this is nowhere near enough time, but hey, I am sure I will manage to make the most of it! And I am doing well so far... I arrived late Monday afternoon and drove over to th...