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3/2/2013

Okarito and Hokitika South Island New Zealand

Filed under: General — Mike Chapman @ 3:24 pm

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Hokitika drift wood sculpture competition

On our way to Okarito we had lunch by a beach that had just had a driftwood sculpture competition this one did not win but it is the one we liked the best. It was very windy. The tent saga started here. When we arrived at the camp site for Franz Josef Glacier it was rainy and very windy. A short while after we had put the tent up one of the poles broke and went straight through the flysheet.

The photographs

Lynne and I did a very good repair job with Duck tape and the spare pole. We bought some material and glue to mend it the next day. At the next camp site, it was still very windy, we did a proper repair job waited for the glue to dry and then attempted to put the tent up in the wind. The tent did not like it and another pole broke! We gave up, hired a cabin and I tracked down a tent that would be suitable for Steve and Mary as a replacement. We were lucky I tracked one down in the R and R shop in Queenstown and they held it for us.

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