Well, I finally caught a fish. The trick is to use lots of bait - preferably as smelly and rancid as possible. Here I found some defrosted prawns that were about to walk away from a riverbank near Napier. After the fish stealing the bait several times without getting caught I tried some smaller, nastier hooks and caught myself a pair of diminutive mackerel. Next time I will bring a barbeque. These were then used for bait, which were quickly stolen by some larger, cleverer fish. From the picture you can see how late it was by the time I caught these.
The toen of Napier was completely rebuilt around 1932, thanks to a sudden burst of zealous revolutionary art-deco creativity, prompted by a strong earthquake. It has two full streets of art-deco buildings and some great touches in the street furniture and parks. It reminded me of Miami beach, but thankfully the food here is a lot better and no-one has a complex about drinking alcohol. In fact the Hawke's Bay wine region surrounds Napier. So off we went wine and cheese tasting at a vinyard as close to a campsite as possible, . The photos of the wine tasting were too badly taken to be displayed, not sure why. We crawled out of the Clearview Estate at about 5pm.
Only a week or so of our trip to New Zealand left, and the Volcanic parts of the country are next, then up to Auckland.
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