A Rather Special Kiwi Island Lunch - lots of boat & food pix

[snow(Alan H)]

Ok - way too many photos to post so a few below to temp you & then click on the link to my posting on the CYA NZ forum

Nice boats
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Nice people (thats me in the centre)
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Nice Food
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The link
http://classicyacht.org.nz/forum/vie...php?f=4&t=1691

[snow(Alan H)]

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[Mad Scientist]

Wonderful! Thanks for posting.

Tom

[Chip-skiff]

The food looks grand! I just had lunch and I'm ravenous at the sight.

Is that Motutapu?

Thanks as always for the virtual holiday.

[snow(Alan H)]

Yes it is - north eastern end. click the link & you will see a goggle image.

[Chip-skiff]

Yes it is - north eastern end.

I've not seen the island in many years, yet a photo summons a fairly precise recollection of where it was taken. I've got an odd sort of eidetic memory, perhaps the result of extremely poor vision when I was young. To find my way home from a ramble, I had to memorise the rather blurred patterns of colour— all I could see of the landscape at a distance.

In any event, it looks like a wonderful outing— makes me wish I was there.

[mmd]

Thanks for posting - always nice to see folks enjoying themselves out on the water.

[CapnJ2ds]

Gotta get my timing right! This time I was crewing (Bit of an overstatement for the amount of work I did) on "Waterwitch" in the Flap Martinengo Memorial Race. Saw boats bods and gazebo/tent thingy as we slid slo-owly past Waikalabubu. Even from that distance it looked like a good time.

[Larks]

Looks like a glorious day as well Alan, lucky mob!