Portside

So, Napier, apart from being quite pretty, was also WARM. We wouldn't go as far as saying it was hot, but after a few days in Taihape, warm would do just fine. Another asset to this town is the Hawke Bay Seafood Company. It's mainly a seafood wholesalers, where fishermen in the slightly smaller harbour round the coast go to sell their fish, but they also have a restaurant on site, where Doug and I bought 5 peices of fish and two (very) large portions of chips for $14 total, just over seven quid in British. Awesome!

We also saw Napier Sailing Club on the map. We popped into the office to see if we could go for a sail, and they gave us the card of Marty, who runs a sailing school called Monkey Fist out of one of their sheds. The next day we returned at 1pm, paid $25 and were told to tack a few times in the harbour to put Marty's mind at rest, before we were allowed to leave and head out into the bay - but to make sure we were back by "half three, half four, whatever".

"Now, the tide's going out there and there's plenty of offshore wind, but these things are pretty easy to right, just make sure you don't go too far out, otherwise i'll have to put a boat in to come out and look for ya." Right, thanks. Luckily we didn't lose the harbour entrance or have to practice righting the boat, but it was still good fun, sailing around on the sea.

When we weren't sailing or stuffing our faces full of seafood, we were putting a new sound system in the van. So far it consists of a new stereo and 2 new 4 inch speakers for the dash. Unfitted but sitting in the back in a box are two 6x9 speakers, because in our opinion the current ones don't have enough bass. First world problems eh. 

Ten points, by the way, to anyone who can name what type of Dinghy it is in the comments, because we haven't got a clue. 

Catch you all soon,

Sam and Doug