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Not long afterwards , she decided to move to Sydney , where she arrived just before the Olympics . The culmination was a work specially commissioned from Gareth Farr , one of New Zealand 's up-and-coming composers , a drummer and drag artist whose performance speciality is the Indonesian gamelon drums . Ian 's nephew Peter and five other medical students from Belfast came to stay with us for a few days on their way back from work experience in Sydney ; our pool table still has n't quite cooled down from all those hot shots . Because of the tides we left this mooring before the bad weather had completely passed ( otherwise we would have had to wait a further day and were already champing at the bit ) , convinced that we could weather the tail of the cyclone . We put into Whangerei further up the east coast and spent the next three days or so riding out the cyclone at the town pier , eating pizza and drinking cappuccino in the nearby restaurant . While motoring down the channel to Auckland the cellular phone rang ( sailing is not the isolated experience it once was ) : it was a friend saying he 'd just heard that a surprise tropical cyclone had formed and was about to hit New Zealand . But she 's having a great time in Sydney ; the beach ' n barbecue lifestyle really suits her . We miss her generally happy and optimistic outlook . In fact our first taste of blue-water swimming was at the dead centre of a cyclone , on Sunday morning in the Whangerei town pool .