Thanks Sorcha and Jim, alas, none fit what I want. Guess I'll have to write my own. Rudy's song is about a trip down the NZ coast from the North Island city of Aucland to our southern port of Bluff, which is just 20 miles across Foveaux Strait from here on Stewart Island. Auckland Is are some 200 miles to the south of us.

Coincidentally, Rudy was interviewed on the wireless just last week, so I tracked him down on the phone for our first yarn in 35 years. Caught up with the current doings of folk mates of those days - well the few of us who are still alive. Hmmm...

"Auckland to Bluff" has given me a song theme. In 1850 g-g-g'dad James sailed from Auckland Is to Dunedin to buy sheep for the Enderby Settlement farm. They were there for a month, and didn't have much luck with sheep, but Jaaes picked up a wife. They were married in a Pub, sensible folk. Their first child was born on Auckland Is, not long before the settlement folded in 1852. In 1856 they ran a pub in Porirua, just north of Wellington. Hmmm.... it explains a bit about me ... ;)

Anyway, thanks again.

Cheers - Sam