Rainy Days

It rained here from Friday thru Monday, which was a bummer. 4 days of rainy weather is no good. We did get moved into our apartment in the small community of Opua in the Bay of Islands. We are unpacked and all settled. We are excited to have a place to call home and to have our suitcases out of sight! This picture is the view from our deck that stretches across the whole apartment.

On Monday we did venture down to Whangarei in the rain. We couldn't hike but we did go to Claphams Clock Museum and The Quarry Arts Centre - Northland Craft Trust, which is a site where local artists and craftspeople have their studios and workshops. We watched as a local woodworker made a cigar box guitar and saw some local men taking a woodworking class. We did also manage to find a small waterfall on the site in the rain.