Typical Southland Day

Here are a few photos of a typical Southland Day.

Visit Home

In May my work required that I attend a 3 day meeting to write a Best Practice manual for our SMS software in Napier. Great opportunity to take some annual leave and visit family at the same time.

Alex arrived at the plane to pick me up along with Malcolm, Robert and Sarah.

Was good to see everyone again, especially Mum since she had her second back operation a week prior to me arriving.

Had my 3 days in Napier, sorted our some of my STUFF!!! at mum and dads and Brent and Annas..... quite a lot of junk really.

Mum, Dad, Robert and Sarah, A.Pam and U.Trevor with Roseanne came and saw me off when I had to come back home.

Waiting at the airport!!

2 monthly update!!

Yes it has been 2 months since I last put an update on my blog... well here goes.

Early on the Thursday morning, I made my way to Bluff, got on the Ferry. Txt Kaye to make sure they were having a good time at Stewart Island, told them I had just been to the gym (which was true).... didn't tell them I was going to meet up with them in 1 hours time.... a surprise!!

Well... I arrived at Halfmoon Bay with the instructions to find the house (go to the Pie Cart, look up the road and it is the house with lots of windows)... interesting that every house has lots of windows.

Walked up the road having my mind set on a particular house and ....who should come running out the house but Kaye asking what was I doing there?? Great surprise ah!! Anyway here is a shot of what I found the grandmas doing!!!

After going for a walk in the bush and having some lunch we had a most tradegic incident in which we need the following piece of equipment.

For those of us who didn't require assistance, we changed out Ferry booking to Thursday evening and went back on a very exciting boat trip to Bluff.