February

We had a fun day on the water with Royal and Ellen The fishing was great

Jess took me past her new school. It was the weeknd so we couldn't get in the gates so will have to visit another day:-)

My Trip to Aus

Must like this photo I've got it twice and can't seem to remove it! Note Zeke has got 1 of Justins ties on. Reuben didn't want to take his 1 off!Having a Ladies day out with Anna:-) At Scantuary point . Thanks Anna

Having cuddles with dad

Justin's doing the circuit while he gives lessons to the boys on how to skid and spin out and go faster etc:-) Cute

Sitting on the bench then I can get Dad's wallet to empty

Heidi and Reubs

The boys new trucks, Zeke didn't get much of a look in though:-)

Zeke cant resist climbing whatever it is it needs to be climbed

Reuben showing his skills biking to the park. He was very good when Lou said stop he would skid to an instant stop!!! I think he's a chip off the old block

Having a cudle with Mia

We went out to Towoomba to visit Lucinda and Tracey

January

Our change of office and bedrooms

Jen ready to leave for Hong Kong

Our wasted Mellons Bay Beach after the King Tide

Having fun in the Bay of Islands

Lew and the boys with their great catch
Dad checking out Franks Train Set

Dad in his new home

I'm still learning how to do this so it's not all perfect yet . Anyway this is some of what happened with us in January.

Lew and Rob's Birthday

Lew and Rob's birthday on the 5th of Jan

Lew says he's dyslexic so he's only 45!

Jess and Steve

That's a nice smile

With the better halves

The Stronge Men

Sonnett completing our paintings

Zak's final resting place

We found this batch on the last night at a DOC park. Not allowed to tent so we just slept on the verandah. It rained hard that night but we stayed dry.
Chilling on the beach in the sun

Squatters

Kayaking into a cave

Our 2nd camp, Merle meet us there with food etc and gave us all a much needed massage.

We had paddled for 6 1/2 hours into a head wind.

Our lunch stop after paddling for 4 hrs into a head wind. When we left from here the wind had gone up to about 20 knots and the waves were that big that the other kayak and flag disappeared behind the waves. We had to abort the plan to go to Russell as wind wasn't being kind

Early morning start on second day

1st camp

The first few strokes of many

Our attempt to kayak to Russell from Mellons Bay, 250 km

Ready to go on the 1st day

Walking the Tongario Crossing, one of the top 10 one day walks in the world. See the lava flow? Awesome
The alpine lakes at the top on a perfect day

Amazing colours
This is what happens when you take a car that has no spare wheel and jack on gravel roads. you have borrow a jack, then take off the wheel, lower it down onto some rocks and then hitch a ride out to the nearest town. Then wait over night to get a new tyre then hitch a ride back to the car. We are in the Molesworth station South Island