Day 15 - Where there's a cricket match...

Today started out bright and sunny - but breezy. Still, we went out to the summit of Te Mata peak so Carolyn could show me where she'd been thrown off. It's quite a site with a coastal east facing aspect comprising a NE face and a SE face. These are cliffs atop grassy banks and a wide open fields for landing. There's also a back side for S. The top launch looked committing to say the least - an open shallow gully with barely room for a single glider right over the highest cliff face.

Too windy, and no local pilots, we decided to head into town, see if we could contact Airplay (the local PG school) and find something to amuse ourselves with. We eventually managed to get a number and contact Barry who was outside the area that day but due to return, and arranged to speak again the next day. So as the the skies rapidly overdeveloped to a dark covering of cloud, and we discovered the 1st one-day international between NZ and India was taking play that afternoon in Napier, we booked ourselves on another wine tour. Rain stops play!

Though our wine tour was pleasant enough, taking in three wineries and a tour of the works at Moani ( a small organic concern with a passionate wine maker). A tour of the vines was put aside given the rather damp conditions.

We found the cricket game on Sky TV back at our room - play was back on in a reduced overs "Duckworth-Lewis" game. What had been a sell-out (apparently) was now a near empty stadium . We watched India put in some fine batting to close their innings before heading out to eat. We ended up at a Curry House - but 3rd time lucky, this one was good. (NZ lost the cricket match by quite a margin.)