Life after sea life
by Published on 2nd October 2019 07:44 AM
Hi,
I left the sea life in 1968 having decided that I wanted a change and that was because all the old ships that I enjoyed working on were being sold and I didn't fancy working on the newer ones, so I took a shore job as a barman in a Auckland hotel named the Star Tavern in Karangahape Road where I stayed for about a year. From there I worked in several other hotels before moving back to my home town of Nelson. There I worked at the Tasman Tavern for 1 year and then drove away to the city of Christchurch where I spent the next 30 years. I still miss the sea life after all these years and wish now that I had stayed as I had friends and it was a good life.