Yayay! I found it...in the draft folder...this one comes before the next one, if you know what I mean...
it's the one I thought had dropped off into the great wide yonder.

You know you are on the wrong side of the road when there is a vehicle coming straight towards you on the same side of the road!!!! Ok, so it only happened once, and in a momentary lapse of concentration...and I only turned the windshield wipers on ONCE when meaning to turn on the indicator...Im getting better, and hopefully I wont kill us on the wrong side of the road. It takes a lot of concentration to take intersections wide especially when there are no other cars to follow. I can understand how so many European and Amerian/Canadian visitors kill themselves on NZ roads when driving, especially on roads where there are no other cars.

Today dawned bright and beautiful again. It was hotter at 7am that it was yesterday. I took my 500mls of room temp. water up on the fly deck this morning, hoping to catch some of the breeze. Warren stayed in bed in the airconditioned master stateroom. We went for a walk around the extensive Marina and looked at the other boats(there are in excess of 650 boats in this marina, to give you an idea of the size), the bird life and the fishermen in both kayaks and bass-type boats. I will have to take my camera and take some photos tomorrow, though I have no means of putting the photos onto this blog, right now. We still have to find the appropriate connecting cords for that purpose.

Great Jumping Fish!! Yes, the fish (Bait fish known as Shad ) around here jump..I mean 4ft in the air and they skip, just as you would skip a stone or rock over the water. Very funny to watch, and much time can be wasted watching them:) It is also fun to watch the rivalry between the great Herons, the Egrets and what looks like a Bittern. I will have to find a book on birds and fish, so we can identify them.
The fishermen said they caught a 9 inch 'Red' Snapper in the lagoon nearby, this morning.

I think it is going to be another scorcher of a day, seeing it started out so warm.

Looks like we will have to go and buy some towels that dry. The towels and sheets that came with the boat have seen better days, and the twoels in particular are more decoratie than practial. They have a wooly side which does not dry at all and the looped side does little in the way of drying either.
Warren is using the sheets for rags in the engine room. We bought some new ones that suit us better and smell 100% better than those others.

We also need a printer, today. Conducting all our business over the internet and paperless  is fine to a point, but we do need to print some things up for the record. We are finding the USA to be less inclined towards paperlessness, which is a bit challenging.
We were also surprised and a little peeved to find that the Marina does not have recycling!!! How can that be? there is so much packaging on everything we buy and we had collected a large bag full of recyclables to put in the appropriate containers somewhere.I  hate putting all of that plastic into the dumpster, knowing it is going to landfill.
I will do my best to find the cord connecting the camera to the computer, today, then we can add some photos here.
More later...
Later....On one of our evening walks (11pm-ish) we were leaning over a bridge and watching the small Shad breaking out of the water. Obviously there was a larger fish underneath them, but this was like fireworks on the water. Seriously...HUNDREDS of tiny fish swooshing out of the water in a starburst patern...then a couple of feet later, doing it all again. Occassionally we saw the larger fish, but mostly it was multiple starbursts all over the water in all directions...delightful to watch, though I am sure not so for the fish swimming/jumping for their lives.