John's house and he took us out sea kayaking. We paddled for about
two hours. At one point both Glenn and I felt a little queasy but we
managed to paddle through and make it to leveler waters. Just as we were getting close to your pull out point we saw some planes flying over head. There were four and they started doing the loop deloops. With smoke trailing behind them they made amazing patterns in the ski. It was the big Art Deco weekend in Napier. Our plan was to go down to Napier and do some street performing but after kayaking
we were pretty tired. So we decided to just walk around town and see the
sights. The town was buzzing with people. It was a great day for people watching.
This is a family all dolled up for the Art Deco Weekend. Everyone was wearing their fancy Art Deco outfits and driving their classic cars. This event happens every year in Febuary, as sort of commemoration of the big earthquake that hit this area in 1931. The city was rebuilt after this earthquake in the art deco style. Really it is just a good reason to dress up and have fun. There were even steam engine tractors on display.
Sunday we went on a hike with couple in a place called Boundary
Streams. This is a bird sanctuary, known as a land island, because
there are fences around the area and traps keeping the predators out.
Thus the bird numbers are much higher. One of the native birds called
a Tui has very unusual call, part of its call is like a coughing
sound. We saw and heard quite a few Tui that day.
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