Tasotter and H will shortly start another boating adventure, but this time swapping Prime Thyme for Le Soleal. Regular followers will recognise the name from a previous cruise around New Zealand, but this time we will be heading south to visit some Subantarctic Islands and the Ross Ice Shelf. As it’s an expedition cruise the zodiacs will take us ashore, and hopefully inspect Scott and Shackleton’s hut. All of this is very weather, ice and Captain permitting though….so fingers crossed. 🤞

We will have a couple of days first in Auckland, then Dunedin staying with last years pet sitters Steve and Lisa, who Cooper and Rosie still love. As usual I’m agonising of the choice of cameras, the harsh conditions, currently -16 degrees, make selection difficult. I’ll need a long telephoto for distant wildlife, wide angle for sweeping panorama’s and I’d like to shoot some film ! More on this later on….I’ve still got a few hours to finalise my thoughts !