Field recording Monday morning at Totaranui, my favourite beach in NZ!
It was deserted when I arrived, as evidenced by this FB panorama:

But no sooner had I set up my mics and hit record then I heard a rumble, which slowly turned into a boat
which pulled up & unloaded a group of noisy kids… they eventually go away, then a light plane flies over, then another, then a quad bike, then two more planes… Totaranui is fairly remote, but even here I had to record for 30+ minutes to get 5min clean.

I then drove for 5 hours to Westport, at times through very heavy rain…
The contrast couldn’t be more apparent: monochrome Westport!