Well unfortunately the weather, as per forecast, changed radically with Wednesday and Thursday being grey and overcast but on Friday the rains came and it is forecast to rain for the next few days we understand.
When you are camping and raining you need to keep busy and so we spent Wednesday in the lounge mostly reading and then did an evening exploration along the coast too one of the small bays. Thursday we did a long walk around town and watched the people on their boats.
Friday was forecast to be very wet and windy and so it was but we had
The film started at 1340 and so we had time for a lunch of Teriyaki Chicken and rice at a Japanese kitchen in the Mall food hall.
The film is long, about three hours. Its very well made but could perhaps have been a bit shorter and tightened the film up a bit but the photography was very good and Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman played their parts well. The star of the film was a young Aborigine boy of mixed White and Aborigine blood who they called ‘creamy’. Its aa film worth seeing but only once unlike ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ which we will see again.
Just prior to entering the cinema we purchased at a small store an LED lighting system designed for tents which is run by four AA batteries. So after the film was over we decided to test it and see if it worked rather than go back the 60 miles of so to Akaroa and then find it does not work.
Well it worked, sort of, but then after half a minute it started to smoke very badly and left longer perhaps would have caught fire. UMM! not good for a tent we took it back and they returned our money.
We suggested they check the rest and or take them off sale as they could be dangerous but the store sales people did not appear concerned.
It was still raining as we left Christchurch and it rained all the way back to Akaroa and so rather than sit in the TV lounge we decided to go to the local cinema and have their ‘soup de jour’ and desert and see what films were showing there. So we went to watch a film starring Marianne Faithfull in a film called ‘Irini Palm’ a strange but interesting film. Wow two films in one day.
And so to bed and boy it was still raining and forecast now to rain again on Saturday
