Harvest time

Posted by Peter on 15 April 2011 | 284 Comments

Harvest time

Summer moves seamlessly into Autumn. Here in Marlborough this means it is Harvest time. All the vineyards exhibit a flurry of activity and the roads are clogged with big harvesting machines. The local backpacker hostels are full with temporary workers, who will mainly be moving on in just a couple of weeks.

In the midst of all this high energy, The River Queen continues her regular schedule of gentle, relaxing cruises down the Opawa River. This month has seen some of the best weather of the season. We’ve had warm days (but not too hot, like it can get it the middle of summer) and still days, with hardly a whisper of a breeze. This is unusual for Marlborough, which normally sees a south westerly wind pick up as the day grows older.

In the absence of strong winds, the trees are still holding their leaves, as these turn various shades, from deep purples through to yellows and golds. The vines too are changing colour, turning the regulation green vineyards into a chequer board of colours.

Soon it’ll be Easter weekend. This year the town hosts Classic Fighters Marlborough – a wonderful airshow spectacular, which moves to become Warbirds Over Wanaka, every alternate year. To link in with the airshow, The River Queen is running special twilight dinner cruises. Usually we keep to our daytime schedule, but there will be heaps of people in town and we won’t be able to fit everyone on board unless we do something extra!

Easter Monday is also ANZAC Day, the equivalent of Remembrance Sunday in the UK. While the crew will attend the ANZAC Day service in the morning, The River Queen will be cruising later on. A special 1.00pm sailing will offer a late lunchtime cruise. Then we’ll go for our usual 4.00pm afternoon sailing, before closing over the following two days, to give the crew a well-earned rest.

Do come and join us if you’re in town.

Peter


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