Sunday 20th March

I had a disturbed sleep last night. Got woken about 2am by a family of wekas having a party outside, calling to each other, and playing in the shrubs against the house. Gave up trying to ignore them in the end, and finally got back to sleep about 4.30, after reading most of the night.

When I did finally wake up, about 8, it was looking to be a brilliant day, as always here, so loaded the fishing rods into the Pajero and spent most of the day at Collingwood beach.

Caught one slightly undersize Kahawai, had several what felt like snapper bites, but nothing to bring home. Still, it was peaceful, the tides are high this week, with the full moon, and if I get back there, I think early morning or evening will be better than a midday tide.

Here are a few photos anyway, the beach is still littered with driftwood from the flood back in January, the little harbour at Collingwood is more driftwood than harbour, and all the beaches along Golden Bay have varying amounts of driftwood scattered on them. I filled the boot of the Pajero with the smaller bits for the fire.