Winter Schenanigans
So no posting for a long time because nothing much has happened since that Heaphy expedition. It has been cold and horrible, being Winter and all, and I have largely been hanging out in a small room with the windows blacked out staring at a computer screen. I have also been refereeing rugby, which is uber-fun if incredibly dweeby. There are some recent photos of me on the WRRA website, click on the photos link here: http://www.wrra.co.nz/. In the first one I am playing air guitar.
But on to some brief items of interest.
Both times I went to Masterton we made the trek out to the East Coast and a place called Castlepoint, which has a lighthouse on it. In this photo you can see down into Deliverance Bay (ha!-thought of OC&C when I read this) which is fed by a 'gap' in the reef, a well-known surf spot. The first time we came out here, Summer (the driver) got her car stuck in the sand twice trying to drive down the beach to this gap. The big rock up the back is called Castle Rock (named by Captain Cook 1770) and the whole coastline has some pretty impressive/dangerous reef/cliff-type regions. Look, here are some dudes fishing...
I guess I should comment on the surfing. Well I have been out maybe 3 or 4 times (mostly at Lyall Bay next to Wellington Airport) and not managed to stand up yet. I'm not too worried as it has been outrageously cold on each occasion and invariably followed by a feed of 'Starfish and Chips' in the Thorndon New World car park, excellent.
Been watching quite a lot of rugby down at the Stadium, free ANZ Cup tickets with the reffing and preferential test tickets helping with this. Saw NZ beat SA in Wellington then went up to Auckland for the ABs vs Ireland and saw a bit of the family. Here is Craig...
... and here is Megan ....
Wellington zoo was a nice day out but not quite in the same ballpark as Auckland zoo, not that I've been there for 20 years. The other weekend it was Springlike and I went for a walk out along the far side of Wellington Harbour towards Pencarrow (?) lighthouse. Anyway this photo is looking towards the Harbour mouth with the Interisland Ferry just at about the position that the Wahine sank in 1950-something. All the bodies floated across the harbour and washed up at Eastbourne, where we had parked the car prior to this walk.
"We" has usually meant me and girlfriend(!) Jacinta. Jacinta's pretty much the first girl I met when I moved to Wellington, and I was moving into her flat, so you'd have to say I landed on my feet there :) We have been going out since just after the Heaphy trip I guess. I have received a few requests for a photo so here are a couple:
As well as netball, she is the surfer in the relationship and works as a lawyer for Maritime New Zealand, which seems really interesting from a distance.
But on to some brief items of interest.
I have made some weekend road trips to the exciting metropolises of Palmerston North and Masterton. On the first trip to Masterton I learned what the Wairarapa is. On the way back to Wellington we took a left and headed out along Cape Palliser in search of surf, ending up in a place called Ngawi which is in this photo. One of those stormy Cook Strait days. Bleak and ugly, yum.
Both times I went to Masterton we made the trek out to the East Coast and a place called Castlepoint, which has a lighthouse on it. In this photo you can see down into Deliverance Bay (ha!-thought of OC&C when I read this) which is fed by a 'gap' in the reef, a well-known surf spot. The first time we came out here, Summer (the driver) got her car stuck in the sand twice trying to drive down the beach to this gap. The big rock up the back is called Castle Rock (named by Captain Cook 1770) and the whole coastline has some pretty impressive/dangerous reef/cliff-type regions. Look, here are some dudes fishing...
I guess I should comment on the surfing. Well I have been out maybe 3 or 4 times (mostly at Lyall Bay next to Wellington Airport) and not managed to stand up yet. I'm not too worried as it has been outrageously cold on each occasion and invariably followed by a feed of 'Starfish and Chips' in the Thorndon New World car park, excellent.
Been watching quite a lot of rugby down at the Stadium, free ANZ Cup tickets with the reffing and preferential test tickets helping with this. Saw NZ beat SA in Wellington then went up to Auckland for the ABs vs Ireland and saw a bit of the family. Here is Craig...
... and here is Megan ....
Wellington zoo was a nice day out but not quite in the same ballpark as Auckland zoo, not that I've been there for 20 years. The other weekend it was Springlike and I went for a walk out along the far side of Wellington Harbour towards Pencarrow (?) lighthouse. Anyway this photo is looking towards the Harbour mouth with the Interisland Ferry just at about the position that the Wahine sank in 1950-something. All the bodies floated across the harbour and washed up at Eastbourne, where we had parked the car prior to this walk.
"We" has usually meant me and girlfriend(!) Jacinta. Jacinta's pretty much the first girl I met when I moved to Wellington, and I was moving into her flat, so you'd have to say I landed on my feet there :) We have been going out since just after the Heaphy trip I guess. I have received a few requests for a photo so here are a couple:
As well as netball, she is the surfer in the relationship and works as a lawyer for Maritime New Zealand, which seems really interesting from a distance.
posted by Geoff_W | 12:05 AM
4 Comments:
Winter Schenanigans! Nice to see you use the girlfriend word. You should get married and start to produce that cricket team.
wing defence ,you have to be fit to play there!!!!!
I've heard she sleeps with her eyes open
You can't spell "shenanigans", and you appear to be growing an afro judging from the rugby reffing photos.
Excellent work. I look forward to the return of the goatee.
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