Friday the 17th and it was goodbye to our very generous hosts and point the compass northwards towards the Rotary District 9910 conference at Whangarei.....pronounced Fon garr ree. Just cant get used to these names.!! After a quick trip up in Colin Paulings super fast V10 Audi we arrived at our destination in time to meet our new hosts. Then it was off to the Conference to hear the District Mayor Stan Semenoff open the Conference together with DG Neil Reid's introduction.
This was shortly followed by an amazing talk by an intrepid adventurer by the name of Jamie Fitzgerald. He was called in as a late replacement in a two man rowing boat that was racing from the Canary Islands to Barbados...get the map out ..its a long way. They ended up winning the race in record time and not content with that then decided to take a stroll across the ice pulling a 160kg sled to the centre of the South Pole. And just for good measure he also holds the record for eating a tin of spaghetti in record time...just 4.3 seconds.
After the Conference we braved the showers and headed to an Indian restaurant for an Indian meal.
So the Conference is well underway...more reports to follow..
I'll also now try to get up a few photo's and hopefully they will not be sideways this time!!