Full speed ahead

Life is gathering pace and there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything at the moment.

The last couple of days were a good example:

Monday morning, drove into Picton to get ready for a delivery of a launch to Wellington. Left Picton at 1.30pm, got about half a mile out of the marina and the motor overheated. Went back into the marina so Graham could fix it. It looked like it would take a couple of hours or more so I raced back into Blenheim to get four new tyres fitted to the Escape. Got back to Waikawa Bay about 5pm, went to the RSA for a couple of beers then to the Crow for dinner. Back to the boat by 8.00pm and straight to bed. Up at 1.00am for an early start because the launch had to be in Wellington by 8.00am for a truck to take it to Tauranga. Left Waikawa 1.30am, arrived Mana (Wellington) 7.15am. Caught the train to Wellington and then waited 4hrs to get the ferry back to Picton where we arrived at 5.30pm. Raced home to Blenheim and caught up on emails and phone calls and collapsed into bed around 11pm.

Tomorrow morning we are booked on the 5.45am ferry back to Wellington and then plan to drive straight to Whangarei where we'll stay for a couple of days looking at boats there and in the Bay of Islands then down to Auckland to do the same. After a few days there it will be Tauranga and Napier then home with only two weeks before the furniture is packed up on 23rd May. Then on 27th we're off to Brisbane for seven weeks. Sometime between now and then we have to organise all the disconnections, mail redeliveries etc plus sell Doreen's car, sell one boat and buy another.Who said retirement would be boring!

We took Dave and Bev out on the boat on Sunday up to Endeavour Inlet where we caught a good lot of fish then went on to Furneaux Lodge where we went ashore for a couple of hours then back to Picton in the dark. Luckily it was a beautiful full moonlit night and with the help of that and the GPS we didn't get lost and dodged several ferries to get back safely.

That's all for now, lots to do and not enough time to do it all.