November 18 - Waiheke Island

Well I'm finally here at Norman and Jill's, and they've been very nice to me, fedding me very well. It's horrible weather here though, very Vancouverish, except for maybe a bit more wind, so I've just been sitting inside all day planning parts of the trip and reading. We might be going to see a movie tonight, but pretty much it's miserable outside. Tomorrow we are planning on going up to see the old World War 2 Tunnels, and up to the sheep/cattle farm that Norman works on. Hopefully the weather will be a little nicer!
The last few days have been quite relaxing. I didn't get up to much at Pete's, but did manage to send off some emails and update things. He has a really nice house and a couple of animals, so I was able to keep busy for most of the time. Yesterday we drove into Auckland, and after a little site-seeing around I caught the one o'clock ferry over to Waiheke Island. Norman met me at the ferry terminal and then he had to do some work, so I went down to the beach and into town for a couple hours. Nothing as exciting as almost being smooshed against two Kauri trees, but a good day nonetheless!.