Saturday 2 August 2025 Steve and his wife, Karen, picked me up at 0515 and drove us to the Auckland Airport. Steve and I caught the 0640 flight to Queenstown. Arriving just after 0830 we walked to the nearby car park and picked up my truck, then headed south down the east side of Lake […]
We spent last weekend in Christchurch and I took the opportunity to visit The Giant’s House in Akaroa. This incredible place is the work of artist Josie, who fell in love with the site many years ago and has since restored the house and gardens and made hundreds of whimsical mosaic sculptures in the garden. […]
A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to take a day trip to Mou Waho, a small island at the northern end of Lake Wanaka. It was a cold and foggy morning when we met at the pier in Wanaka. All the documentation stressed we be there 15 minutes before boarding at 9am […]
Sunday 29 June 2025 After breakfast we headed out to find a banteng bull for me. At the wetlands we headed west again, further than we had been before. Leaving the truck we headed northeast on the high ground. We had only gone 500m when we encountered a mob of 4 bulls. After sneaking in […]
Sunday 22 June 2025 Sylvia dropped Ross and I off at the Queenstown Airport, where, after the normal kerfuffle with security, we passed the time in the lounge before boarding our flight to Brisbane. It was a pretty comfortable flight in Row 8 on the 737-800. Yep, economy class for this 3.50 hour trip. The […]