Warm start to the day soon became cold wind, which deteriorated into icy rain, misty hills and powdered snow on the nearest ones. The perfect women of Wanaka don't do cold apparently, as the competition ground to a halt and everyone sheltered in the bar. Oh my goodness, there are some fairly scary women here, and builders bum seemed to be an important aspect. And smoking roll-ups. I just don't know if I'm going to have what it takes - a lot can happen in a year though. I could work on my builders bum in time for entering the competition next year.
The dirt jump park opening was another world, 5 mins up the hill. From 10 yr olds to teenagers strutting their stuff. A diverse town.
Had a coffee to warm up and sat next to a Kiwi couple who had recently been to Scotland, and in particular, Stromeferry which they loved because it had no ferry, and they had been out on a boat collecting scallops with Neillie McRae from Achmore, whom we know very well.
Back home to light the fire and Spook and Dan went to check out the road to Mount Aspiring. A stormy drive through hail and rain. Most unfortunately, we missed Wullie and June, who are on a big tour over here,and they'd called by when we were out drinking coffee. Meg was home, recovering from this weeks sleep-over, so thankfully was able to greet them. They only had time to leave us some lovely NZ wine, before heading north-west to visit a glacier, on their way back home. We were really disappointed to miss them. We last saw them when they called by our going away party in Fort William, to get our Kiwi address, and we had looked forward to their visit.
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