CHRIS &
FIONA IN NEW ZEALAND, FEBRUARY TO MAY 2006,
SOME
PHOTOS OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY
We spent our first
weekend
getting over jetlag with friends Colyn & Les at their cliff-hanging
bach
called ‘The Ship’ on Ti- Point
just north of Auckland
Shopping at the local
market
Chris & Les doing the
Sunday
‘male thing’!
Lunch on the deck
Ti Point beach
Cousin Andrew's birthday party,
Chris, Anne, Bob, Andrew, Steve and
Fi (left to right)
A
novel use for a wine cool-bag
Tramping
the New Zealand bush at Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf
Fitzroy Bay where we
anchored
Carelbi at Great Barrier
Cousin Andrew’s cat on
our old
banger which we bought 4 years ago for £300
Andrew, hugging one of
his pines.
(Part of his retirement plan!)
The original bach of
Maori
friends, Patmore & June at Whangaruru Bay
Carelbi anchored off
the bach
Pig hunting dogs; wild
pigs have
been devastating Pat & June’s veggie gardens
They have tracking devices on
their collars to find them if they chase too far away
Fiona on a beach at
Whangaruru
Chris, triumphant with
kahawai
fish caught off Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf
Fiona preparing to bake
the
kahawai in Carelbi’s galley…
Ready to pop in the oven
Christmas Pudding
rocks, complete
with holly sprig! (off Kawau Island)
Smoke from the gun
salute for the
Queen’s 80th birthday in Auckland
Fiona with herb garden,
accepting
happy 60th birthday wishes!
Blowing out the candles
The crew insisted this
present
from Jade was a minidress and demanded a modelling!
Bill, Ken, Chris and
Andrew, just
before leaving Opua for Gambier
Anders had to use the
dinghy as
tug to push Carelbi’s nose around -
there was very little room to
manoeuvre in this marina
Neatly turned around…
and so,
off to Gambier 2760 nautical miles away
View of Matapouri Bay
from Cousin
Anne’s house
Pebble beach, just
around the
corner from Matapouri Beach
A totally delicious
fish &
chip 60th birthday celebration for Fiona with the ‘rellies’,
on the actual day, May 1st,
down the Tutukaka Game Club
Fiona is now waiting
patiently in
New Zealand for her boat with Chris and his mery band of men to arrive
in
Gambier.
They are not having very useful
winds, lots of sitting in in the middle of a high, playing cards,
guitar,
singing,
eating good meals and
occasionally getting a good sail. She is flying out to Tahiti on the 21st
and
down to Gambier on the 23rd
May. Love to all family and friends who have stayed with the photos to
the
bitter end!
