Hi Roger,
We'll be crossing from Bluff to Stewart Island (right down south),
which I believe can be a bit rough. But we'll be doing ti in a ferry.
I'd better get back to packing.
Cheers,
Jill
On Tuesday, December 20, 2005, at 04:02 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> Yeah, south island is grand
>
> Crossing the Cook Straits was always a blast in winter, white-water
> from shore to shore. One time, some badly lashed pipes like a broken
> pack of 20 ton pencils, started rolling from side to side. The roll
> threatened to take away the surrounding containers. The skipper was
> panicking and the seamen were attempting daring-do to try and capture
> the pipes to the deck...aaah, those were the days.../me goes off into
> middle-distance one-eyed seadog mode...
>
> have a great time
>
> Roger
> On 12/19/05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Ha Jill
>>
>> I only know the south of the South Island in their winter, & it is
>> then
>> Cold. But it's also beautiful, & you sound like you will be doing it
>> grand.
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 18-Dec-05, at 4:41 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Roger,
>>>
>>> It may or may not cool. I'm going to New Zealand, to the South
>>> Island,
>>> for Christmas and New Year, so it will be cooler than Sydney, even if
>>> the plains of Central Otago are brushed by hot winds. Here, at the
>>> moment all we seem to have are helicopters at night, police lockdowns
>>> of beaches, and the frisson of fear stirred up by radio shock jocks
>>> and the rest. Christmas in Dunedin seems a fine idea to me, and if it
>>> snowed it would be a fine thing (though highly unlikely). I will be
>>> with a gorgeous woman, so you never know. I don't know what New
>>> Zealanders call schooners but the equivalent of that and a few
>>> glasses
>>> of pinot noir from Central Otago will do fine.
>>>
>>> All the best for your celebrations up north,
>>> Jill
>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> it is an accumulation
>> cumulous
>>
>> bpNichol
>>
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