Cruiser Christmas
25 December 2012 | Opua Community Hall
Marilyn Cyclone Evan Remnants
On Christmas Day we joined about 10 other boats for a pot luck dinner at the Opua Community Hall. We decorated the tables and brought "gifts" fot a gift exchange. Ours were wrapped creatively with spare newpaper tied with whipping twine. Turkey is expensive here. So, people brought main dishes including curry and scalloped potatoes and ham. We brought dessert.
We also sang Christmas carols.
A good time was had by all. All in all a great thing to do while the wind was still howeling from the remnants of tropical cyclone Evan. The remnants seemed to get stuck over Cape Reinga. It passed over the tip and then wrapped around and came back. It brought rain and wind for 5 days.