Graeme leaving for Papeete

An early enough start to a long day's flying for Graeme. First Auckland, then the haul up to Tahiti on Air Tahiti Nui.

We were fortunate that as La Ronde Tahitienne is a cycle race we can use FlashPoints and minitracks for main and announcer lines. This enabled Graeme to pack everything into two cases so he could use Air New Zealand's prepaid additional bag allowance and get all the equipment through to Auckland with him on the same flight.

We also benefitted this year by having Ryobi batteries we could use being available in Tahiti - much better than the series of issues surrounding transportation of Lithium Ion batteries Graeme faced last year.