This is the view from the apartment the hospital has put me up in. That’s the Ross River and it is Saturday today so there are people waterskiing up and down.
It is definitely tropical up here. The sun sets in the south these days, and I think the plumeria are out all year.
For some reason all the photos didn’t upload. Might have something to do with us sailing out into the open ocean. I’ll try add some more now.
We are in port at Mount Maunganui and we rented a big van with some of our cruise friends and headed out to Rotorua. It was pretty great, and a wild world.
A few photo to show what it’s like.
We are in a little town called Napier. Gorgeous day.
We are on a boat, pointed at NZ… Should be good. Rough seas predicted so we’ll see about that! I’ll be out of contact for a bit.
We had a visitor here on Boxing Day, just after lunch. It’s a Blue Tongue lizard. It moves kinda like a snake but they are pretty harmless I think. A reminder of where we are.
Here are a few snaps from our first Australian Christmas. The kids were great fun and were very excited about it all.
Just sitting here on the deck at night in Byron Bay… It’s Christmas Eve, and everyone is headed to bed. I found some videos on my phone from my sailing trip a few weeks ago so I thought I would try post them here. It might work, it might not…. We’ll have to see!
The first one is motoring out of Hamilton Island, and the second one is under sail, later that day. Try not to get seasick!
PS… It didn’t work! I’ll figure it out soon.
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