We won’t see Skippers or Serpentine now. Cruising Milford Sound is off the agenda, as is one more leisurely trip around the East Cape. Aggressive lung and kidney cancer took Neill’s life in mid-September leaving me completely and utterly bereft.
But a wonderful condolence letter from Stuart Edgecombe who ran a gold-panning operation in Roxburgh has motivated me to write. We visited and interviewed Stu in