Thompson Gypsy Adventure

From November 2009 to September 2010 Tyler and Paula will be on a grand adventure. We have lent our house to another family who need a place to live while they are building a new house, and we have hit the road. New Zealand, Australia, Texas (!), Ireland, Scotland, England, and Japan are planned.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Crossing the Cook Strait to South Island

Wednesday 27 January 2010     Blenheim, New Zealand


Today was a beautiful day for crossing the Cook Strait on the Bluebridge Ferry.





Farewell, Wellington!





Approaching the Tory Channel, a shortcut into Queen Charlotte Sound.









This little girl was really enjoying "flying" into the 25-knot wind.





This is a mussel farm.  Sort of like Gold's Gym, only aquatic.





Tyler in the motel room planning where to go for dinner.




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Midland, Michigan, United States
Tyler is a retired research scientist (PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois) who worked for The Dow Chemical Company. The last 16 years of his career he served as grants and contracts manager for Dow's External Technology program, involving Dow sponsored research grants to universities, government research contracts into Dow, and a variety of other industry/university/government research partnerships. Paula is a botanist with graduate work in plant taxonomy. She worked as a microbiology research assistant for four years while Tyler was in graduate school, then led a busy life raising 3 kids, gardening, and serving in a variety of church ministries and activities.