Weekend in Pauanui

We went to Pauanui on weekend of Nov 20th and had a really lovely weekend. We took Annabel's parents out to dinner for their birthday (within a week of each other), and got the ferry across the estuary to Tairua to visit the locally famous Shells restaurant.

The Dutch boat man Annabel remembered from her youth, as "he still has really hairy ears". Not hair growing from the hole bit, but like on the outside and in the curvy bits as well. It would be truly sickening if he wasn't such a lovely old man, although Annabel felt very guilty as she used to make fun of him with her mates when she was younger.

Someone should really tell him about inflation though as he appears to charge the same 4 dollars each that he was charging in 1986. I guess you don't operate a ferry from Pauanui to Tairua to make a million bucks...

Here is a short vid of the evening..

(Pauanui-Tairua Ferry, 1MB, Windows Media Video format)