Work is over!!!!!!!!

Well I finished work last Friday, it was a bit sad to leave. They supplied a really nice, completely Gluten Free morning tea for me. Speeches were said, songs were sung ( yes Glenn wrote me a song), a few tears were shed. I will miss my work colleagues and some aspects of my job, but I am not sorry for leaving. We have such an adventure ahead of us, how could I be sorry.

Living on the boat has been pretty smooth so far, admittedly we are still on the Marina berth which makes it sooooo much easier. We move off the berth on Sunday morning (early) back to our pile mooring. Paul will finish work on Friday (yeehaa) and then it will not be long till we go. Unfortunately a Specialist appointment as reared its ugly head for next Wednesday, but once that is out the way... off we go.
The next couple of days will be spent stocking up the boat with supplies, we need to do this before Paul finishes work, as we lose the car then. So we will be able to kiss goodbye a whole lot of money and welcome in a whole lots of cans. Naturally we have already stocked up on the essentials.....Wine.

In answer to your question Carleen, the Solar Panels charge our two 6volt house batteries, which power our lights (mostly LEDS), phones, stereo and laptop. We have invested in an Inverter (pure sine wave) which we use to change the power from 12volt to 230volt. We have discovered that the laptop is a real power drain, so we may not use it too much. We will be using Internet Cafes anyway in our travels. So hopefully I can find them all over the place, fingers crossed.

I will sign off for now, If you want to come and see the boat and you are in Whangarei, we are at the Town Basin Marina on Pier C (near old Vinyl restaurant) 3rd boat on the left.