The weekends here in NZ are going fast...after a busy Saturday shopping, gardening and baking a Christmas cake followed by a wet Sunday relaxing, baby sitting and knitting I set off on Monday morning with a full back pack and a head full of ideas and headed North with the most Northerly point, Cape Reinga, New Zealand on my radar.
Now then, without being typically British sounding I must make a comment about the weather situation here in NZ. I know many people will be sitting reading this on a dark dull very cold morning at work so I don't want to appear ungrateful for my position here in a New Zealand summer. However, I seem to be catching the tail end of a 'cyclone' everywhere I go...This 'cyclone Rita' first effected my India travel plans only two weeks into my trip...it then followed me sneakily changing identity and name to 'Lekima' to the beaches of Vietnam then to the beaches Thailand then to the North West Australia and now it seems 'cyclone Damen' it has come via Fiji to meet me in the North of New Zealand, causing churned seas, high winds and lots of rain. Its determined to catch up with me where ever I go ! Don't get me wrong it is only ever adding interesting elements to my travelling experiences but I am getting a little sick of extreme weather conditions 'for this time of year' type comments wherever I go !
Note to readers who did not study wether systems in geography lessons ... A tropical cyclone is a meteorological term for a storm system characterized by a low pressure and thunderstorms that produces strong wind and flooding rain. nice eh ?!
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