Walking boots, camera, water, food and off you go..... Nothing like just going on your own; a little adventure for afew hours, i had no plans on tuesday morning, got the weather forcast out the paper blue sky'd day and rain coming in wednesday thursday. I wanted to go up the glen to the top of the hill and i was tolled it can take up to 4hours so today was the perfect day for me to go. Got my stuff together and off i went up the track, narrow zig zagging track t...

Sheep, sand,sea and sun! The weekend was quiet with a village bbq on the saturday, sunday was one of those nice days, a quiet morning, then a lovely afternoon. We went a walk to the mellenium track witch follows the larg taieri river to the sea, the track winds its way through the dense vegetation new zealanderss call the bush, view of the river every so often as you walk through the sights and sounds of the deep forested hills. The views from the highest point...

Thats a big bird!!! Yesterday i spent the day a couple of hours awaya from dunedin at gore at an event known as the feild days; 3 days for famers to take the day off and see all the machinary they require have tractor contests, buy supplies and meet all those old neighbours etc. It was a large version of the black isle show for everyone at at home i guess.! sun was shinning and spent the day wondering around and then ending the afternoon watching the tractor pul...

Willpower.......its the strength in the mind (wait maby thats the same thing?) This morning as you may have seen i spent a far while adding photos to the blog and typeing some more blogs for you all, appologies for the delays. This morning we had a drizzly start and so plans wernt made until today for the course of action. This afternoon a trip into the city witch i nottice has numurous ups and downs and its vertainly a place for practicing your hill starts......

1 word......sheeeep!! Up at 6 am this morning to drive an hour and a half to a sheep farm near gore at Waikoikoi. The farm has over 2000 sheep, on a 420 acre area of land. I was ashamed at just how little i new about this area of expertise and so found it very interesting learning the processes they require to go through but also learning about new zealand's farming. The main thing was moving the sheep about, for the various processes today. The vet was in first...