The HMS Wellington is moored over there and bedecked with flags ready to fire a salute at midday.
https://media.newzealand.com/en/events/celebrating-new-zealands-waitangi-day/
Rob and I sat on the terrace and chatted as I had breakfast, always good to spend one to one time with him.
N and I went into Russell at 10.30 to visit the Pompallier mission house. Founded by the Catholic missionaries in 1842.
http://www.heritage.org.nz/places/places-to-visit/northland-region/pompallier
Then we strolled along the waterfront and sat for a while before returning home for lunch.
I took Rob into Russell to catch the ferry to Pahia to meet up with some friends.
Back home I did some gardening. The border that runs down the side of the house is raised so it’s easy for me to work on. Here, the impatiens are perennial and needed cutting back as they had become very leggy.
Later N and I went back into Russell, my third trip of the day!, to sit on the waterfront again and test our new seating arrangements. We were due to pick Rob up from the 7 pm ferry but he called to say he had been on the earlier ferry and was with some friends at the Duke of Marlborough tavern and why didn’t we go and join them. Not a bad pub but at $12 for a (rather mean) glass of red wine I don’t think we shall be patronising the establishment again. Strangely the pub closed at 7pm as it was Waitangi Day. Don’t follow the reasoning behind that! Said goodbye to everyone and the three of us came back home. A busy day for us!
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