Kiwi lockdown – day three

March 28th 2020 – as we wake to day three, 7.30am (beginning to sleep in) there is an eerie silence in our world…..yesterday morning started with a walk with Dan and Floyd ….. this video says it all, we keep trying to dig the water out from the hole and the more we dig the more water fills up the hole! So we dig more, and there’s more water…..and so it goes on!

We need to stop the flow, and as we are in our bubble we are all diligent and must be aware of any new waves infiltrating our bubble and we shut them down…

So the day began, with a beach walk and the dog showing us the world we live in is not such a bad place…

And social distancing is easy when you ignore all humans around you…

A hesitant trip to the supermarket was needed – yes we are allowed to get food. The roads and the town of orewa were eerily quiet, like being in a communist country, and we were waiting for the road blocks…. no one at the supermarket (well only us and a handful of other folk) no one spoke, we entered (george and I) donned with gloves and face masks , list in hand for us and Dad….he and Sandy are not leaving home, rushing through, keeping our two meter distance from the other few shoppers and out as quickly as we can, gloves off and sanitising before driving off! Sort of felt like a robber but paid for our food…

Then a chemist pickup for Sandy, prescriptions only, and a path taped with thar orange emergency tape to follow, threw the $10 in the basket and off, like a robbers dog!

Drop off at dads, table outside front door with our mail and supplies for them deposited….. a chat from inside to outside four meters apart (no hugs) and hightailed it back over the hill to our safe pod at Waiwera!

This is like a war zone and George and I have enough food for the next week….don’t want to be doing this on a daily basis….the first day was littered with walkers, police, smiles and hellos (from a distance) today was weirdly devoid of life…

Moving forward, we need to smile, smile at everyone you see, laugh at anything, a dog is oblivious…he will never beat the sea when digging the water away…and we must look out for each other, enjoy the quiet, listen to the birds, and SMILE at any human you see…..from a distance. Your smile may be the only human contact that person has.

So in summary, no Police events, public toilets on the beach shut down, our safe little Riverhaven pod looking out for each other, chasing away strangers, and keeping in contact….possibly 5 o’clock has become 4 o’clock beer time, not sure this is a good idea!

So….day three begins….