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We examined the extensive vegetable gardens which the women and children start weeding at dawn , and inspected the enormous , well-equipped workshop , in which a mechanical chicken-plucker ( or was it a chicken-plucker 's son ? We picked them up and sailed round the corner for lunch . There was plenty of wine for us in the interval so the second half was a bit ropy - - but , fortunately , so was the audience by that time . Recently we let our hair down and played at a lunchtime event at a nearby winery , sitting on a big canvas-covered patio and performing Broadway music and popular opera songs while the audience helped themselves to buffet lunch . After a few minutes we predicted that boredom would soon set in , but instead we were mesmerized and stayed for over two hours - - the only non-Indians in the audience . With Ian she did the world-famous Crypt Lake hike , which starts with a refreshing boat trip across the windswept waters of Waterton Lake to land on the other side , climbs steeply past Hell Roaring Falls , carries on for miles and miles up a glaciated side valley , switchbacks interminably and very steeply up to a 20 metre tunnel in the rock through which you have to crawl ( leave your claustrophobia behind on this trip ! Sailing under jib alone we made the rendezvous in Coromandel Harbour and picked up Michael and Rosaleen to take them round the corner for a night on the boat . But while the walking was arduous at times , the landscape and views were varied and stunning - - at one point we even caught a glimpse of Mount Cook far away in the central South Island .