My  salt water damaged Leica M4-P is still at the Leica factory in Germany,  either being repaired or still in the queue waiting to be repaired.  I have no idea which it is.  Leica did advise that it would  be repaired and returned to Australia at the end of June. It is now more than eight months. The repair times have blown out, but not to worry. The camera's  value is increasing all the time -- it would be in mint condition and  so worth around  $A4000 dollars. Unfortunately, I need to replace the Summicron 50mm f2 lens as Leica advised  me that my 1980s    damaged Summicron lens was unrepairable. Sad, as it was a good lens. 

In the meantime  I am going through the archives. The two pictures below are from 2020 and they  are details of the ground in the beech forest along  the Kepler Track,   near  the shores of Lake Manapouri in the Fiordland National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. 

There were heaps of people walking the track that day. I was only doing a days walk  as Suzanne had decided to go on a day trip  to Doubtful Sound / Patea.  This beech forest was an all green world,  and it was such a contrast to  an arid South Australia which has no forests.   he photos  were made around  the same time as this picture.

 We were staying at Lake Manapouri at the time. The news was all about the emerging Covid-19 pandermic. We  had started to worry  about whether we would need to cut short our holiday and return to Australia  early.    We were closely  monitoring  the news  for any  policy hints about  Australia closing its borders. We did not want to be stranded in NZ if Australia did close its borders.

The  low light  in the silver  beech forest oof the Kepler Track meant that I was up against  the limit of hand held 35mm film photography.  I more or less had to look  for situations in the forest where there  was  some extra soft light on the decaying wood in order.There weren't many such  spots.  

At the time most of the tourists  from Europe that we talked to whilst at  Lake Manapouri seemed to be unconcerned about Covid-19.  They were going to continue with their holiday plans.  We did the same --- continuing on to Gore, Omarama and Twizel, before returning to Dunedin via Oamaru. As we travelled  to Dunedin we became increasingly concerned about when New Zealand and Australia would close their borders.  On our last day in NZ we were on  the last flight out of Dunedin to Australia.  

I haven't been back to NZ since.