Today after two weeks of settling in, Anita and I went out for a quiet breakfast at Cherry's at Gulf Harbour. I had the French Toast with roasted Banana, Fruit and Bacon while Anita had a Mushroom Omelette. Of course these were washed down with two Long Blacks (coffee). Yummy Yummy.

At home in Gulf Harbour After the long journey and several weeks waiting, our goods finally arrived at their new home on the New Zealand morning of Monday 19th August.

It's Arrived At long last the container with our goods in it has arrived in New Zealand. It was a relatively short journey from Sydney taking just 3 days. The Maersk Rio Delta was guided into the port of Tauranga by two tugs, the Tai Pari and Sir Robert (see pics) It will be a day or so before the container will make an overland journey by train to our couriers dept in Auckland and of course from there our goods will be taken to our new home. If you want to se...

Into Sydney and off to NZ On the the 6th of August, one day later than originally expected, our goods arrived in Botany Bay, Sydney. The journey from Singapore has taken the MAERSK RIO DELTA through the Indonesian Islands, north of Java and Timor-Leste, then across the top of Australia passed Darwin and through the Torres Strait by Thursday and Wednesday Islands and down the east coast passing the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast to Sydney. The s...