The other weekend we visited Jeff and Kelly on Waiheke Island for some sun, sea and scallops. Unfortunately, while the rest of NZ experienced temperatures reaching almost 40 degrees, we struggled to reach 20 degrees on the nonconformist Waiheke Island.

But we had scallops!

Jeff went diving every day and brought us back a feast of fresh scallops.

Here’s Mike cooking them up on the barbie in some garlic butter. They were the most delicious things ever! And we ate orange bit, which for some insane reason they remove in the UK. It is the tastiest bit!

Apart from scoffing scallops we did the sculpture walk. This is where local artists take the piss by discarding a scrap piece of corrugated iron (that clearly they have no further use for) on the island, tell the council it is “art” and all the pretentious Auckland wankers “ooh” and “aah” about how it is his best work yet! And the artist pockets $30,000 from the council and laughs his head off all the way to the bank.

Seriously, the council paid $30,000 for this piece of “art”.

These little fellas were quite cute:

A snake full of pine cones: