It is with some sad news that we open this newsletter. Our first crew members who were to join us for leg one from The Bay of Islands in New Zealand to Noumea and Vanuatu were Kathy and Dave. They had pervious yachting experience having owned a catamaran, and were so much fun and truly made that leg a memorable one. Dave even offered to dive overboard to help clear a blocked loo mid ocean. Most people would leave the skipper to do that. Sadly Dave died in a tramping accident on the west coast of the South Island earlier this year. He was right into the outdoors. Dave you are sadly missed. Kathy our love and prayers stay with you.
House of Flowers, Miracle Gardens
Well we finished off our last newsletter in Abu Dhabi.We were to spend another week there before
departing.It was sad for us when the
time came to say goodbye to family, particularly the boys whom we had been with
for the last five months. We are not sure when we will catch up with them
again.But as I keep saying, thank
goodness for Skype.
Alec and I spent the last couple of nights in Dubai with our
good friends Judith and Graham who are fast becoming our competent crew
members.They took us out to visit
‘Miracle Gardens’.Help you would only
see something as weird and ‘over the top’ as far as gardens go, in Dubai.Anything out of the ordinary had (mainly
petunias)) growing in or out of it.I
will explain no further, just look at the photos.This place is only open in their winter
months as summer would get too hot for the poor plants to be maintained on the
grand scale of planting that there is. It was evening when we visited, and the
strong smell of the flowers was quite overwhelming.My favourite was the peacock.
