Tsunami

I was up at 4 AM today watching the warning sites about the Tsunami and it’s impact on NZ. If things had gotten dicey, our best strategy was to put to sea.

At around 5 AM our time, most of the alerts were downgraded. We did see some tidal flow variations but they weren’t much. Normal tides in Whangarei Harbor run around 6 to 7 feet (the closer you get to the poles, the higher the tides).

We did see some strange tidal flows but they were innocuous.

Had a great dinner at Vinyl in town (Whangarei is quite small by our standards but large by NZ standards).

NZ has about 4 million people – half live in Auckland. Only 1 million on the whole of the South Island. Whangarie in the Northland has about 100,000 including the surroundings.

Best to All