Thursday

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Jane and i and for a windy walk down the beach  worth the weather being more rainy than expected.

We drove to tryphena to walk to the whaler’s point where the whale watchers would go to report sitings of whales.  Blubber was big business.

Whaling stopped in great barrier island not long after it started thanks to Japanese and Russian ‘factory’  ships driving the whales to near extinction on their routes along the east of. New Zealand meaning there weren’t. Many left. Passing the island

That also explains why we. Didn’t see. Any today.

Surfing was. Cancelled. Because the waves were. Too big so we. Stayed in tryphena until a. Pub opened

After waiting an hour.we.found out it. Would be another hour until the kitchen opened. So. Came. Home. Instead.

It’s nice and sunny now.

Sorry about the stupid capital. Letters.  Blaney stupid phone.

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we sang for whales but none came

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this is a sort of island postal service where boxes of things get moved around the island, presumably by bus?

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