We hope you have had a relaxed and stress
free time and best wishes for the coming months. The weather here was excellent
over Christmas but then it turned quite wintry last weekend – we even had
a fire going on new year’s eve. It has come right the last couple of days and
today was glorious. It’s back to work tomorrow so we made the most of the
sunshine and spent the day gardening and going for a walk around Oriental Bay.
On the way back I saw these boats
participating in the Global Ocean Race.
They are stopping off in Wellington after sailing non-stop from Cape Town –
through the infamous Roaring
Forties.
They are incredibly small to travel through
the wide ocean on. Crewed by just two, it must be both very hard work and cramped.
This is more civilised – but nowhere near
as exciting, the Eastbourne ferry completing
another crossing of the harbour.
A question for you – what do you think
these buildings are?
Might be easier from another angle.
They are public
toilets and I can confirm they were very smart and clean.
Finally, I got this shot from the
footbridge over the motorway. The pillars are part of a Masonic grave in the Bolton Street Cemetery and they
are surrounded by pohutakawa blossom and the houses in Easdale Street.
