Norfolk Island's Foggy,
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Foggy Dew
MOST islands in the South Pacific can expect to have indifferent weather for Christmas and New Year—it is, after all, the “Wet Season”. But Norfolk Island can reasonably expect something a little better.
However, this year like Sydney which had the coldest, wettest Christmas for a century, Norfolk Island produced some of the gloomiest weather ever for the holi day season.
The fog came down and the fog stayed down and from January 3 to January 10, except for brief, bright
patches, the island was wrapped in a grey cocoon of mist and rain.
Such slogans as “Island in the Sun” and “Paradise of the Pacific” lost their flavour even for those who had invented them and visitors be came very sour.
The Qantas DC4, due on January 4, arrived January 10 amid sighs of relief from the tourists marooned long after their scheduled date of departure and sorely short of cash.
Commented one regular women visitor; “This is positively my fare well appearance”.