Wellington

Sorry for the lack of posts for the last couple of days but I've been needing a bit of recovery time after alternating between sniffing petrol fumes and baking in a dry sauna.

Ruby has a few interesting features with its fuel system, there is an old spare fuel line that ends underneath the front passenger seat, this squirts raw petrol on the ground if you overfill the tank. After almost having a fit when I discovered this while topping the petrol up I bent the pipe over to stop the leak. This has had side effects. The fuel tank vent is in the boot so now we can either cook with the windows wound up, or sniff petrol fumes when we wind the windows down not an easy choice in a non air conditioned car on a sunny day.

On the way down to Wellington we have made a couple of stops, first at Mike's brewery at whitecliffs  and then then at the New Plymouth Top 10 holiday park; this has a most pleasant free heated pool.

Mike's mighty fine larger

We had to sample some of Mike's fine products and bought a couple of take homes to drink once safely in our lodgings.

Once we managed to crawl out of bed the next morning we had a check on race progress and our key pickup time for the house in Brooklyn and decided we had to proceed direct to Wellie, no pictures of Cape Egmount lighthouse.