Total lockdown, New Zealand

We are in a nearly total lockdown from midnight friday, extended for 48 hours to allow North and South island people to return home, the ferries had the capacity but halved passenger numbers to allow for 2 m separation for the 3 hour trip. we can only leave home for pharmacy, rural supply or grocery shopping. We have to nominate a bubble and keep to it for at least four weeks. Bubbles can vary, I know where 2 houses next door to each other with children have combined, and our neighbours in a double house, a young couple with 2 teenagers separate from his parents, communication through a locked door or by phone.
Up to last night 280 cases increasing rapidly, no deaths and about 20 recovered.
We have many essential services around here, farm labourers, emergency services and exempt workers in some horticulture, food supplies have to continue.
We are in the middle of grape and kiwifruit harvests usually worked by tourists and seasonal workers from Pacific islands, now no longer available. Whether the new unemployed at present supported by government subsidies will want to do this work will be seen.
You can go fishing or hunting provided you can walk there and keep your 2 meters apart. An olympic athlete was stopped from a training run trying to get there by car.
Walking by yourself or in your bubble from home is allowed at present.
Thanks to the moderators for their efforts in keeping the Forum going. New categories would help.

An old photo to start things, 35 or so years ago, a sea bass or wreckfish, about 100 lbs from 250 feet while on a charter to White island where 21 tourists died recently during a volcanic eruption.  

We are doing much the same here Rhod the police are beginning to check on people as to whether the journey is necessary. Keep well.

Great photo Rhod.

Intetesting that the Wreckfish is also known as a Sea Bass, which is what restaurants here
Insist on calling " Bass" which I presume is a bit of an American thing maybe?

I will indeed set up a section for old pics in the next day or so and will transfer any old memories or pics posted in the meantime to it then.

The bubble idea sounds a good one.


New Memories Section now created and post moved to it.

and that was just his bait  

The west coast of America have White Sea Bass, considerably larger than the European ones presumably to differentiate from their small and large mouth bass in freshwater. I am not sure of their range, but certainly popular in California.
As the internet has over 300 types of bass, you can catch them anywhere.
In NZ we are realising now that these deepwater bass are very slow growing, about a couple of pounds a year.
In the days of yore, they were found on shallow reefs here but being agressive and hungry, plus good to eat they did not last long and popular spots were soon fished out.
Because they are caught in deep water, they cannot be released as their swim bladders blow up.
We have the bass as pictured also hapuka, similar but a bit slimmer and has the bottom jaw longer than the top. Both found on reefy country where they are ambush predators.

Every day a school day ( or may be not at the moment )