I think I've bumped into more friends in New Zealand in the street in the last month than I did in Kingston, UK during the last year even though I lived there 16 years!

It’s good to be back at the sea.  Today I picked enough mussels to cover the floor of the dingy.  Tomorrow I'll clean them of barnacles then pop them into clean water with oats (the oats will flush them out and make them delicious) then three friends...