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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