Date: April 23rd, 2010
Spent the morning at the Heritage Museum at Omaka which is excellent. The displays put together by Peter Jackson and Weta Workshops are so realistic. Its tempting to poke the mannequins to make sure they’re not real. Would thoroughly recommend a visit if you’re ever in the area. The autumn colours from the vineyards as we departed Blenheim were stunning. Flew out to Cape Campbell and down to Kaikoura for a fish and chip lunch by the sea. The final leg from Kaikoura down the coast to Christchurch over the seal colony continued in brilliant sunshine. A late afternoon landing at Christchurch International Airport – had a 737 jet holding for the Tiger Moth to land. Now if that’s not respect for the old girl in her 70th year!
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Date: April 23rd, 2010
Despite strong protests from Pete, we have picked up another passenger. “Jerry” will never forget his night in Napier where he met the love of his life…“Jemimah”. Since their chance meeting, these two have become inseparable, traveling everywhere together in the back of either Nick or Jims aeroplane. We took off early from Napier in brilliant sunshine down the coast via Cape Kidnappers on track to Martinborough landing on a private strip owned by Pauline and Alistair. In true kiwi hospitality, they lent us their vehicle to get into town for lunch. As the weather was so settled we decided today was the day for crossing the Cook Strait. Having refueled, a quick check of the aircraft and doning life jackets we made our way from Turakirae Head on the south coast of the North Island over the Cook Strait to Omaka at Blenheim.
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Date: April 23rd, 2010
Despite strong protests from Pete, we have picked up another passenger. “Jerry” will never forget his night in Napier where he met the love of his life…“Jemimah”. Since their chance meeting, these two have become inseparable, traveling everywhere together in the back of either Nick or Jims aeroplane. We took off early from Napier in brilliant sunshine down the coast via Cape Kidnappers on track to Martinborough landing on a private strip owned by Pauline and Alistair. In true kiwi hospitality, they lent us their vehicle to get into town for lunch. As the weather was so settled we decided today was the day for crossing the Cook Strait. Having refueled, a quick check of the aircraft and doning life jackets we made our way from Turakirae Head on the south coast of the North Island over the Cook Strait to Omaka at Blenheim.
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Date: April 23rd, 2010
Just a quick update. More photos coming later tonight. We’ve been battling wind and weather today. In Dunedin tonight. An update on our stats. – we have now done 41 hours flying in the tiger, travelled 2665 nautical miles (5000 km!!) which is equivalent to flying from Auckland to Brisbane and return (minus the duty free booze!!)
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