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Hello folks well it would appear that it has been a while since my last blog post. So here goes....
Help-X has been really cool, they have worked me hard but I have achieved the following: Reversing a trailor, driving an automatic car, demolishing a tree, wedding, general gardening, painting of various forms, cleaning, child minding, laughing, giggling, cooking, spring cleaning, furniture renewal, fairy light hanging, window fixing, sanding and to top it all a bit of baking! There might be more but I can;t think of anymore off the top of my head.
I've been surfing too, water is a tad warmer than Wales not by much still have to don a neoprene number. Oh managed a bit of windsurfing. Which started out fine, not too much of a breeze then lord nelly I think a gale force decided to erupt. This happens frequently here, the wind comes out of nowhere and it's pretty strong...enough to blow a small child over at times!
One of the adventures that I have been on is that of an exploration onto Quail Island, which used to be an old leprosy colony, and only one person ever died on the Island. To get there....BOAT! The trip over was lovely and calm and the scenery was spectacular, a couple of kayakers were paddling their way over to Island which would be a good work out as it's a fair 10 - 15 minute boat ride I reckon. I would like to mention at this point that the sea was calm.....
The Island itself it beautiful, there are great views of Lyttleton and Diamond Harbour. It's a pretty secluded area obviously with only a few boat trips running during the day. Plenty of walkers about as there is a great trmaping track around the island, which one went on. Started out up a little bit of an incline and on a hot day it was mighty sweaty, lush a! Anyway as you stroll around the top of the Island the view guides you to look out at the open sea, you can perch upon a bench if you wish and watch the days go by. As you continue on you pass a little oasis of local NZ tree flower things...have no idea what they are called but they looked cool. As you meander around the Island, shipwrecks litter the bays, obviously back in the day the tide must of got the better of some rum swigging folk. Throughout the walk there are some really cool scenes that had to be captured. (I will upload when I find my camera lead, oops) The is some shelter in a little bay where lunch was eaten, other people had the same idea and arrived by boat which then resulted in some watersport action. After a cheeky little natter with some kiwis this little lady got some wakeboarding action. Was a nice cool down after the trek around and it was cool. Time ticked away and then it was time to venture back on the boat to get home...this is where the fun began...... After we had strolled back to slip where the boat was to pick us up it was apparent that there was a hell of a wind a blowing! I mean seriously, was windy! Hold your hat on job, shield yourself from it. So after a miniature wait, up pulls the boat a much larger one much to my relief and was a dual hulled thing bit like the spew cat but a tiny version, so we boarded, it was packed to the gunnells and as we left the captain said "It's going to be a bit of a bumpy ride folks so lookout, and will you please keep the windows on the starboard side closed as you will get wet." There were of course a couple of idiots who decided to stand at the bow of the boat and I am not kidding you they had a bath, they were drenched the waves were crashing majorly over the side of the boat, bit of rocking and rolling. Bit of excitement I can tell you. I survived the journey rather well in comparison to most people...there were a few shades of green developing, one little lad couldn't last and the sea got the better of him...poor thing....the smell of a slightly sick person however is not good in close proximity. It was at this point that one was wishing the baot trip to end. But hoorah, we made it back safe and all was well, apart from the poor girl who had to clean up the boat that is. Don't envy having to do that job.
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