Seems that "things" were against me for this weekends Safari Adventure.
It all started Friday afternoon when fuelling my Mazda in Auckland. Mind busy on other tasks, other than putting Hi Octane Petrol in car. By mistake grabbed the diesel hose and squirted 10 litres in the tank before realising!!!
Twat!!!. A quick google, no real problems some forum said. So topped it iup with 95 octance and drove back to Tauranga. No real problems....
Well not until just before 7am when I tried to start the mighty Mazda. Started OK then faded after about 60 seconds....diesel must have settled in to the fuel lines.
Gosh Gooly gee wizz. After some ringing around regarding mechanics to purge the fuel, gave up and took a "lift" to the airfield, to find that the fully fuelled Sinus had been flown a couple of times in my absence without a fuel topup.
Ho Hum off to the local Shell station for 20 litres of climbing juice.
All ready, charts, lifejacket, baggage stowed...................bloody flat battery.... Maybe the supreme being was trying to tell me something.
But tenacity wins .....press on Mc Duff!!! Its only 11:30am
A loverly sunny day and oncourse at 8500ft until Ruapehu when the vista changed from blue skies to cloud.
Descended west of Taihape as a bit "cautious" about going ontop of a thickening bunch of cloud.
Cloudbase 4000ft. Hilltops not far below that.
At this point I figured that someone was trying to tell me something. so aborted the mission and pottered off to Ohakune and a return to Tauranga.
Tomorrow is another day!
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