Sunday, 22nd October. Up early and caught the ten o'clock ferry from Auckland to Waiheke Island for a tour of some vineyards and an olive oilery (I'm struggling here, it's a place where they make olive oil). The two notable vineyards were Stonyridge and Mudbrick. Both produced excellent, crisp white wines and Mudbrick also produced a nice pink wine. None of the red wines sampled were of the best, however. At Mudbrick one vine produces enough grapes for only between one and two bottles of wine. The picture shows Anne, Rosemary and Sheila on top of the hill at the Mudbrick vineyard, sampling the wares. The olive oil facility was interesting, they no longer press olives to make the oil, the olives are mulched and the oil is separated in a centrifuge.