In the meantime I will welcome any inputs and comments. The 2000 tour took us back to many places we had previously visited and wanted to explore further as well as a number of new areas. The weather was less kind than some years and we spent less time under canvas and more in cabins than previous years but it had is compensations especially in the lack of Sandflies in South island. The sailing, this year in the Bay of Islands was a highlight and the weather was ideal during that fortnight. We were also far more successful with our fishing than previously and almost lived on fish for the last few weeks.
Fishing is very popular in New Zealand and over a third of the population has or does fish.
I have added a number of books on sailing and fishing to the new Book List . Peter took a lot of digital pictures this year a selection of which will appear on the site. Unfortunately you will not be able to click to see large images unless you enable Java on your Browser. For those who are interested we have a new video camera - a JVC GR9500 which is tiny compared to the previous video and is fully digital. It also takes still pictures as frozen 5 second shots which one can transfer via a special serial cable and software to the PC at an adequate resolution for normal use and far higher than can be used on the web.