Tuesday, 9-Feb-2010, NZ local time
The “King Kong” ship is gone. It was here earlier this week, but is now gone. They took it out this week and sunk it. We didn't even get a picture of the damn thing. I'm talking about the big ship used in Peter Jackson's remake of “King Kong.” The ship was sitting at a dock when we came in on Saturday and the story goes that Peter no longer owned it, and ownership changed hands a bit, and no one was sure what would happen to it. Kristi and I talked, and she took our digital still camera with her today to take a picture of it (it's that geek-fan thing again), but it was gone. Lousy timing or what? The other thing that bakes my noodle is they took this great big chunk of metal out to the ocean somewhere and scuttled it. Um, hello? Scrap metal? What's a ship weigh these days? 1000 tons? 2000 tons? 37,000 tons? (Okay, bake, batter and deep fry my noodle)
This afternoon, I met screenwriter, novelist, voice coach and all around very interesting person, Jade Valour. Jade had posted an entry to the YBBC, and posted on one of Kristi's entries that Kristi should look her up here in Wellington and Jade would treat us to coffee. We could not match up Kristi's schedule and Jade's schedule, but I'm on holiday and so went to meet her. A lovely lady who has feted with Barrie and, if I recall correctly, most of the cast of Lord of the Rings on different occasions through a bit of luck and lots of hard work. She is very eloquent, very well traveled and could probably write a great blog (or even a non-fiction book about her adventures) by herself.
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