We have spent 3 nights at Kaiaua. It is on what is called the “seabird coast”. It is one of the places that the godwits leave and come back in their migration. They fly up to the Artic to breed and then come back to New Zealand for our summer. The babies, who are only about 8 weeks old when they leave the Artic fly back too. It is quite amazing how they know where to go. It's one of my favourite places to park.
Our friends, Natalie and Murray came and parked there with us. On Saturday afternoon, we did a bike ride along the bike track. We did just over 11ks by the time we got back to the vans. We pretty much laughed the whole time they were with us.
It has been very gloomy with a bit of rain since Sunday, and our solar panels have been struggling. We parked at Eddie's sister's place for a night and came to Matamata yesterday.
We went to the solar power expert in Hamilton on our way yesterday and learnt that our system is not working as it should be at all. Well we sort of knew that, but didn't know how to fix it. It is going to them in 2 weeks time to be sorted out and another solar panel added. With 1 more on the roof, we should be ok even on gloomy days. It seems that the people in Whangarei, that we dealt with didn't know as much as we thought they did. They sold us the wrong batteries to start with. Sigh. We can work around that though, so all is not lost.
Eddie is working today and I have been into town and caught up on all the washing that has been neglected over the last week.
No comments:
Post a Comment