10th January 2005

After breakfast, straight next door for coffee and unload the rocks we collected and arranging then in the garden, Bernie shouted a meal at the Wholemeal Cafe. Then Angela & Dad took me on a drive over to the Wainui Inlet, passed the Tui Community and the entrance to the Abel Tasman National Park. I resolved that the next time I come here, to do some walking (tramping as the Kiwis call it) through here. We stopped off at the shop in Pohara and got ice-creams.

Called in to Takaka Organics shop for herb tea to help Dad to sleep and I bought the Selected Writings of John Dewey - On Education and started reading it on the way home in the car.

Then home for dinner and out to the Village Cinema in Takaka to watch the 2nd Bridget Jones Diary movie, Angela's choice, but I enjoyed it. Dad couldn't "take the noise", and left the cinema and sat in the car. The Village Cinema has a very nice community feel, highly recommended, especially the frozen eskimo (choc ice) we had in the interval.

Then I caught up with Bernie and his two guests, Doug and his son John. We chatted over some Jack Daniels.
Photos: 10th January