Jamie & I are sitting at the Matauri Bay holiday park, with the last rays of 2009 sun beaming through the trees onto our campsite. The good people here have given us a site that did not exist before we turned up. They were fully booked, and then some â?? but kindly crammed us in. Just as well (we left accommodation plans a bit late). There are 1500 people here, all living the simple life for a couple of weeks by the beach with no distractions. One bloke just turned up with his chest puffed out and three massive crayfish in tow â?? a good dinner to see out 2009.
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It is only a few hours until the new year and most folk are sitting by their chilly bins enjoying a quiet beer. Jamie and I are not.  This is a far cry from our normal new yearâ??s eve, which typically involves a fair bit of partying.  The girls are at Coromandel Gold and no doubt we will get an incomprehensible message or two from them later. I guess a quiet night in the Bay of Islands, is a (very) small price to pay for the adventure that is about to begin at Kauri Cliffs tomorrow.
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I was just saying to Jamie, it is exactly 10 years since I saw in the millennium playing night golf at the Russley Golf Club in Christchurch (the first tournament of the millennium, anywhere). That night we all started our golf at midnight with a shotgun start, with the course lit up by floodlights and glow in the dark golf balls.  That is one of few golf memories for me over the last 10 years as uni, other sports and work have pushed golf to the backburner. Something that is about to change�
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We had a nosy around Kauri Cliffs earlier â?? and canâ??t wait to have a hit. It seems to be a pretty luxurious place and the views were special to say the least. Â Next post in the â??10.
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