Arrived here one week ago and after a frenetic week of arranging power, gas, internet, not forgetting to mention cleaning our new house and maliciously dealing to huge numbers of spiders and webs that had accumulated in a house that had been unoccupied for 6 months, I feel now like my head is above water and I am breathing air!

This place is totally amazing, even more so than I realised in December when we came here for a holiday and returned to New Zealand with a new house (well not strictly true, had a new house in Norfolk two weeks after returning).

Got up yesterday and hit the Saturday market at 7.30am, the Saturday market is where the locals purchase their fruit and vegetables. Do not be deceived by the term market there were three stalls, one for Norfolk Blue beef, one with vegetables fruit and local pork and another with eggs, fruit and more vegetables. The vegetables and fruit, however, are outstanding, all locally grown and much better than anything I have seen in NZ even at the organic shops. Norfolk Island only imports only what they cannot grow, which is not much! You can only buy what is in season, not that this is a handicap at all, as the average daytime winter temperature is 18 deg C, something will grow all the time. The local pork is wonderful, I have arranged to contact the farmer in the week and organise a whole pig, butchered the way I like and making dry cured bacon, without nitrates.
We had some of his normal bacon this morning for breakfast with scrambled eggs, delightful, hardly shrank at all, obviously dry cured.

During the week I contacted Rusty, aka Joel who delivered packs of local beef, different cuts and bones for stock to the door, all now in my new freezer, forgot to go to the local mall butcher to pick up freshly flown in Aussie tiger prawns, hopefully some left on Monday.

We have been  here seven days and not yet managed to go down to the beach to swim and snorkel, because we have been so busy setting everything up, today is the day. We had to send out my little MX5 and not our truck as it was not ready to go, so not much space for carting stuff around, the truck will have to wait. We were not here to see my little car loaded from the boat onto a whale boat and tugged ashore. When the next boat is in and we are here, I will take pics and publish, but boats on average are monthly.