March 3rd - Chilling in Picton

We have had a very relaxed day after all the charging about of the last 10 days - and the storm has passed through. We had a lot of rain and strong winds in the night which blew the patio furniture around a bit - but this is a sheltered spot and we were spared the worst. The most serious damage was on the West coast of North Island. We heard one of those news reports on the radio where they desperately struggle to find someone with something interesting to say. Eventually they found a guy who said "there's a few houses here with no roofs but many houses with some roofs." That's OK then - so long as there are enough roofs to go round! But here the weather was fine and calm today.

It's hard to believe that a few miles away in the Cook Straight it's too rough even for a fairly large ship like the Interislander. 


We are in a lovely spot here in the Marina and this is a really comfortable apartment. We went into Picton for lunch - watched an old Brad Pitt film (Kalifornia) and then went for a nice walk among the boats.

All in all - my kind of day! As we were musing on our time in South Island we were reflecting on the end of this particular musical era in our stellar careers - but still time to get together one last time for ... The Final Cut.

We are all booked in for the ferry at 1315 tomorrow - so we will back in Napier late tomorrow evening.