Ski trip NZ 2014

NZ Snow Trip 2014

18th July - 28th July 2014

After Chris picked me up from Queenstown, we drove the long way around to Wanaka (not over the Crown Range). We stopped at Lake Dunstan and it was flat as, with awesome reflections.

Diana looks to be contemplating life as she looks back towards Queenstown…..

Gold Rush huts.

Michael, Diana and Alex enjoying a few beverages at Cadrona Hotel

Diana, Alex and Jenna at Cadrona Hotel.

Alex, Diana, Michael, Jenna and Dallas at the Irish pub in Queenstown, good beer and Mulled wine it was freezing.

The food was amazing…….

In the Ice Bar Sub Zero, cool fun

Ice sculptures

Ice table hockey, good game

Alex and Dianna enjoying the temperature.

Heading up into the snow

Michael in the Snow. So cold icicles formed on his mo and the neck warmer and goggles froze every time he went for a run down the hill.

Alex and Michael heading up the slope.

Michael in the Snow

Jenna

Michael and Jenna, enjoying the fresh powder

Hitching back to Wanaka, D and Alex had left to get a X-ray, got a ride with a really nice family from the Philippines.

Jenna, Chris, Dallas, Michael and Dianna (Alex was off catching fish for dinner)

Check out the view

Chris enjoying the view

Playing Pictionary, Mindtrap and Trival pursuit, all $1 game from the Arohanui hospice during uni life back at Nash street Palmerston North, Good times. All while having a few quiet rums/ beers. Excellent night.

Michael and Shahn, only got one day up in the snow together but it was worth it. Although we lost Bethanne when we were heading to Captains Run.

Michael and Shahn

We headed back to Invercargill way to catch up with Michael's parents and rest of the family, as it was Marg and Petes' 30th Wedding Anniversary (another blog to come with pics!)

Off on a bike ride up into the long wood's, we met the neighbours and had a chat.

Chris and Karen on the ride, looking cool.

This movie is not that great as a lot of the footage was just iced up camera from the very cold weather, so I only had getting off the chair lift with Alex, and I missed getting any footage of Dallas, while she cut up the slopes, but hope everyone enjoys it.

New Zealand, you sexy beast

New Zealand....

So After my work contract finished I had no work..... and after about 2 weeks of bumming around I had to do something as with out any fun plans the boredom was driving me mad, so booked my flights home to help out on the farm.

Lake Wanaka the night I flew in, beautiful but bloody freezing.

The old stone ruin on the farm

The cows walking back to the paddock.

The milking shed with Stewart Island in the distance

The ute while I was fencing on the hill.

Pete coming up the track to put a few posts in.

Just down fishing at the river at about 9pm

Fresh snowfall the second night in Southland

Feeding the calves, excellent shed for rearing- makes life easy

Snow on the hills

Milking the cows, Chris thinking he's the boss

Cows in the yard

Purple Sunset

R22 cleaning up the farm

Long drive north

Stoping for a rest at lake Ruataniwha

Lake Tekapo

Alex and Diana's place Canterbury 

D's pad a veggie garden

High winds a few weeks before I arrived destroyed many of the irrigation in Canterbury.

Haylands Sheep and Lambs only 2months old

Pecker and barry

Haylands, a magic spot.

The Cows wanting to see whats for dinner.....

D and Alex and the kids

Oamaru, historical area.

Shackleton replica lifeboat, the one they sailed all the way north from Antarctica to South Georgia to raise help. http://www.timjarvis.org/shackletonepic/

Moeraki boulders

Dessert 

Dunedin Surf

Sunset Dunedin

My pet ducks 

Pete with is Trout, over the moon, but broke his rod.....

Sunset on the runoff.

Flying over Fiord land, amazing I have never seen this from above as it is always cloudy, I was probably just south of Milford Sound.

A fantastic trip, got some work done and had a blast.