it was a rubbish day in auckland weather wise. apparently there was plenty of mizzle (that rain which is wet but so fine you can’t feel it)
luckily i got a plane to wellington which was lovely and sunny
i hadn’t realised that planes were remote controlled when they move back from the stand. interesting
once we were clear of auckland the clouds cleared and mount taranaki was looking particularly grand with its snowy peak and wispy cloud
i had a whole heap of food and drink related meetings down in wellington which was good
at lunch i met up with our auckland chum eugene again. him and his family are settling well in to wellington life
he insists on taking a picture of me every time i photo him though unfortunately.
and i had afternoon tea this afternoon which was provided on a plate rather like some from my youth which was a surprising ‘forgotten memory’
the flight back was really good too, although a little bumpy coming in to auckland
here are places we explored when we were down in wellington a few weeks back for our little holiday
that was going to be all my trips to wellington done for this year, but i’ve got another scheduled for mid December
and there’s a chance i might need to be down next week too. i don’t mind it, but it’s a long day and leaves jane to do everything at home (for which i thank her greatly)
the girls have got their athletics day at school tomorrow which they’re looking forward to
and this evening jane’s gone to some ‘crafty chicks’ thing at the race course. nope, i’ve no idea either
here’s some light phenomena to finish with. this was a shadow of our plane which sometimes came really close to our plane as we flew through clouds, and was surrounded by a circular rainbow
and here’s a proper rainbow which might have been over a reservoir, only i lost my bearings a bit as we came in over auckland due to the cloud
and finally finally, there’s auckland’s own circular dormant volcano Rangitoto in the clouds.
