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.