These pictures were taken from the lookout on the hill just behind our house. You can see our house just at the bottom of the picture to the right of the seat. If you click the picture you will be taken to a new window with some more pictures on it.
Sunday, 13 May 2007
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Here are some photos of our weekend in Collingwood. We stayed at the DOC bach on the beach front. (Kiwi holiday houses are called baches which is a shortened form of bachelor pad!) The location of the bach is just great - right on the beach and you can hear the tide coming and going as you sleep. Its pretty basic but just ideal for a weekend break. We were in Golden Bay to help Scott (Claire's husband) celebrate is 40th birthday. Unfortunately the weather was a bit mixed on the Saturday but Sunday was glorious. We had a lovely time - even the boys enjoyed themselves and didn't really complain about missing their Saturday football games.
Friday, 11 May 2007
Our Welsh Friend
Meet Dafydd.
Dafydd has come from Wales to spend some time in New Zealand. He is spending some time with some of the children from Richmond Primary and they are writing a book about his adventures. Last weekend he came with us to Golden Bay. He had a great time and so did we!This picture was taken on the picnic table just outside the DOC bach where we stayed. The weather at the weekend was unsettled but it didn't stop us having a good time.
Tuesday, 8 May 2007
First site visit to Granity Pass
One of Toms big projects this year is the construction of a new (replacement) back country hut in Granity Pass, on the Mount Owen masiff at the southern end of Kahurangi National Park. The hut site is at 1220m. altitude and requires and hour and half drive (from Nelson) and about a 6 hours to walk get into.
On 8th May, Tom and some of his colleagues visited the hut site to decide on exact location / orientation and geotechnical issues (flood, rockfall, soil types, avalanche likelihood etc..). It was a glorious day.
Fortunately he had a helicopter on hand - so 25 minutes after leaving Nelson he was there.
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