***in defence of this blog I never finished it and so am posting it as is because now I have lost the will to finish it, apologies if it makes crap reading but really we all just look at the pics anyway eh?'***
This is the last email I sent out to my fellow campers before we tore off for the North to begin our camping weekend for Pete’s 30th birthday….
“Just thought I’d drop you all a quick email to say despite possible better judgment, we are heading off early this morning to Uretiti. I say despite better judgment due to thunder storm Saturday that the met service has predicted to roll in.
Come armed with wet weather jackets if you’re prepared to face it! By Sunday it should be clear blues again.”
Ben’s reply below SHOULD have made me rethink my plans but I was hideously optimistic, cyclone smyclone, we’d be just fine.
reply from Ben……
“Thunder storm??? It's a tropical cyclone with gale force winds and extreme rain warnings!
"Because it's a tropical storm it has very, very heavy rain which is not too good for the long weekend. And the winds will be gale force further north which is exceptionally strong ..." (Metservice report)”
Below are two pics, the first is us arriving, smattering of rain about to pitch our tents. The second is the very same spot the next day after the cyclone forced us to yoink up our tents in the dark battling sheet rain and big winds.
Back we came the next day, much to my horror. I had to take a big dose of ‘suck up’ for the sake of Pete’s 30th. We saw that some campers weren’t so lucky and had had to abandon their belongings to the rising waters the night before. I felt mildly better that at least our situation wasn’t quite so dire.
But we re-pitched on high ground. Stoked campers free of flood waters!
Cass, Chris and myself headed in for a dip one day while Pete took in the view sand side.
Like a cat walk to heaven eh?
Post cyclone and the morning wind was blowing offshore, Pete made the most of the surf before the day turned to cloudless skies and a wafty breeze.
Caving to see NZ’s largest Stalignite. staligtite. or staligmite. I can’t be bothered to look up the correct term.
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