A sleepy traveller

This darling little girl slept nearly all the way through breakfast ....cruising CAN be tiring !
A week has passed since we got back home and during this time I had a mammogram, Perry his three month checkup for his knee and we both have been trying to get over a cold that we did not need !
Played bowls at Coolum on the Sunday....again yesterday and Perry again this morning. This morning was a fund raiser for the fire victims in Victoria. Over 200 died and there are over 7000 displaced people. Our club has raised over $5000.00 which for mostly retired people of moderate means is fantastic.

Today is a national day of mourning.

For the most part we did enjoy our vacation. The positives were that New Zealand is definitely a must visit country, and we met some lovely people....had lots of laughs. Next time by plane and R.V. Negatives for us and me in particular were that I suffered with seasickness and don't do well living in close quarters with so many people. We had too many sailing days....9 of the 14. New Zealand is a lot further away than I thought ! Two days straight on the water is enough for wimpy me. Milford Sound is so much more mind blowing when you are actually THERE and that was our first "stop"....you don't actually stop....just cruise very very slowly for the day looking at the awesome scenery including snow capped mountains and waterfalls. Lucky us got the nicest weather day there in seventeen years. The Sound gets over 300 inches of rain and mist a year ! We got a beautiful cool calm day.
Lyttleton which is the port for Dunedin (Gaelic for Edinburgh) was our next stop and that was where we went ashore to spend the day doing the Taieri Gorge Railway trip. LOVED LOVED LOVED it. I think a rail journey would be really terrific....must look into that !
It was so beautiful, exhilarating...on and on and on.....It only lasted around four hours, but during that time we had a nice, and not too wordy narrative.......a champagne box lunch and a stop for the engine to be turned around and lots of time for pictures and souvenir shopping from some stalls that had been set up alongside the track with goods that are produced in the area. Hand knitted sweaters (wool and possum)....lovely white honey and the usual hand made jewellery etc...quilts also. I bought a bracelet and video.
The video is 25 minutes long and we have watched it three times already!
That's it for now...typing and watching the Johnny Walker Classic which is being played at The Vines course in Western Australia. It's getting close to the end. Good golf !