I was affaid that yesterday and today might have been ‘fluff’ days this week but that hasn’t been the case.  Yesterday was awesome and today I spent 7hrs paragliding.  And when the wind was too strong we called it quits and I played 18 holes at Arrowtown.  Here is a 14meg crappy video clip of Keith playing on this ridge this afternoon when it got too windy to fly off … Continue reading Thursday

Golf at Otatara (beautiful old golf club), Rob, Murray and I joined in the members comp.  Then down to Bluff to pick up a jetboat and fush and chups (no oysters though – not happy about that). As a side note… if anyone has a soft spot for ‘not so good looking’ women, Invercargill is probably a place you should check out. Continue reading Wednesday

Monday was a ripper of a day.  Forecast for a fine week is holding up so here is what I did today (Tuesday). Starting off with 18 holes at my favourite golf course, Jack’s Point, with Pete and Rob.  Green fees today were just under USD$30.  I just can’t put my finger on how much I like this course. The ‘meat bomber’ (tandem skydiving plane). … Continue reading Tuesday

This week the weather is supposed to turn it ON!!!  Spring so far has been hit and miss – gorgeous day one day then the next I’m still sitting in bed working well into the afternoon.  I have a few things lined up this week so I’m going to post some pics each day….  (there are a lot of things that could backfire on this … Continue reading Monday

Richard the Pilot is leaving tomorrow so today the boys took me to some new stuff. As usual things start with a walk….   Then some scenic fotos…   I can’t see the pin positions on the golf course for tomorrow (course is the peninsullar that juts out onto the lake) so I’m outta here.   Me lining up Intimidator….  First run down here – … Continue reading Last day of man skiing

Right click then select ‘save target as’ on this link. A short compilation of footage – only 3 meg – high res version to come. Continue reading This is the good one folks

Another addition to this post is in order – last night was the 6th big one in a row and the troops are all very quiet so far today.  The snow hasn’t been that great the last couple of days and yesterday Dave the Sailor and I had a wee play on this rather large step-up. Dave the Sailor looking very stylish and me looking like a muppet…… August … Continue reading Shazza getting Sailor’d

This post and the one below are going to keep growing while I work through all the stuff we got.  I’m not sure when I’m going to get it all done since Richard arrives tomorrow and AJ has 2 weeks off.  Owww – man skiing…. This is what town looked like when Shazza left for hospital….   This is what town looked like when he … Continue reading Sherm and Shazza’s Photos

Sherm and Shazza are over – you couldn’t tell since Shazza has spent a bunch of time in Invercargill under the knife.  I told the ambo drivers he was in for a circumsizion and I hope they didn’t take me seriously (I don’t have a suit appropriate for a Bar Mitzvah). (Note – every image in this post is a link to the movie.  They … Continue reading Sherm and Shazza’s Movie’s

This was the view walking out the front door yesterday. Skiing was on the cards…  But last week Concrete was closed because they didn’t have snow… today they are closed because they have snow…. YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!!!! We try our best to get around it though – instead of skiing fresh pow- Lisa Doris joined the boys for a day out and since AJ and I were … Continue reading Snow – lots of snow!!!

Doug from Keystone told me about some natural hot springs in a valley on the west coast about 5 months ago. Since then I’ve been doing some research and when I landed here 5 weeks ago I was keen as mustard to give it a touch up.  However, the west coast gets 17m of rain a year (if it fell as snow that would be … Continue reading First Real Mission of the Winter