The Drought has broken

After 50 days of sunshine, we had rain!

My evenings of plant watering have kept the flowers blooming through summer, and last week the dives came to help, and one sat on my head during the excercise! All those in our kiwi paradise were getting thirsty!

The week passed in a blur of heat, tiredness, work and traffic jams. Now all the universities are back at work the daily commute is somewhat more tedious.

Almost two months in, in 2020 and Saturday gave us some tears from heaven…which is a little how it felt waking up to a grey morning.

Dan got me moving with a tip run, shopping and a push to take the boat out for an evening trawl….jobs done, nanna nap and on the sea at 4pm, with the sky’s clearing for the evening.

As usual we went deep! And rocked and rolled in a two meter swell, the fish were hungry, the fish were small and the anchor decided we needed to camp the night off the back of Kawau Island! It did seem like we may do this as the sun was closing in on the land. Some tricky manoeuvring, by Dan, round in circles, back and forward, and we were free to head back to the warmth of our own beds…

A beautiful evening, cruising back up the river at sunset, easy boat wash , no fish to fillet, hot shower and relaxing evening preceded a great nights sleep (in our own beds!)