Now some would believe that working the night shift means that your work the period of darkness, right? Wrong! Not in New Zealand. Daylight savings means that we have more daylight time than darkness. So what does that mean for the night shift then? We start work at the normal time, 6pm, but this time we work while watching the sun go down. The night shift is full of sailings across the Cook Strait under the moon lit sky surrounded by thousands and thousands of stars! At the end of the shift we go to bed after watching the sun come up. Doesn’t that sound a little unusual to you? Yeah of course it does, but that’s part of my job and I love it!!! It reminds me of when I was working on the deep sea ships on the 4-8 watch. It’s the best possible shift work you could ever come across in your entire life. You work from 4am-8am and then again from 4pm-8pm. It was perfect. You get the twilight stars in the morning before the sunrise and in the evening you get the sunset followed by the evening twilight stars! It’s just truly magical!