Friday 5 October The Good Life

seaplane transiting the anchorage

It's true. We are morphing into Tom and Barbara Good the small holding DIY couple from the TV show. Yesterday David was baking. Today we tested our first batch of home made ginger beer and it's winner; less sweet and more refreshing than commercially bought and super simple to make.

Jackster the micro brewery, the artisan bakery, pizzeria, dairy (yoghurt), Enid Blyton tribute boat ('lashings of ginger beer'), diving research vessel and a floating sushi bar* amongst her multi faceted persona.
* reference to the string of LED lights around a table I the cockpit which illuminates the area like a sushi bar.
Continuing in our theme of alternative / DIY/ money less life style, we turned a duvet into gin! How you ask? A new kind of alchemy? If only. No, we gave one of our two duvets to a cruiser who's returning to NZ for the summer and he kindly bought us a G&T at the island bar. Within our current long term cruising plans the next time we'll be 35° away from the equator will be when we reach the tip of South Africa and that's a while away. In NZ we dipped down to 41S and when the winds blew from the south and the cold Arctic ocean it was chilly. The penguins liked it but we've grown used to warmth.