A couple of weekends ago I was privileged to be tail end Charlie on the annual Gold Rush 3 day Adventure Race. It was a bit humbling as it’s possible I felt more tired at the end of each four wheel driving day than the athletes! It all started at Alexandra where 90 +...
Dear Margie I’m not sure how you did it, but I sensed a great peacefulness the times we had coffee together recently. Not that we’d ever known turmoil before making sure we connected before you had to go. I’d hoped initially it might have been indicative that you were winning your 2nd fight to...
Five call-outs in a couple of weeks! Too many accidents and deaths of a tragic nature for Wanaka Search and Rescue of late. I’ve been on standby, so bags packed I took quite an interest in what might be coming up! I don’t mind waiting, and understand the need – any operation is sophisticated...
Dear Readers It’s been a very special few days here in Wanaka. Not because of the sudden influx of party goers and holiday makers, most relaxed, sadly many drunk. No, not the many nubile young woman on the lake’s beaches either! Instead my friend Bob McKerrow, humanitarian with the International Red Cross and mountaineer,...
Yesterday I had an interesting look at a block of country nearby that I’ve not seen before. The Wanaka Forest and Bird group organised it and it was down the west branch of the Manuherikia river and up the east. Accessed oddly enough from the Omarama end of the Mackenzie Basin over Omarama Saddle...
Last Sunday a week ago, my phone rang early: Wanaka Search and Rescue ringing around for people to search the Gillespie Pass route in Mt Aspiring National Park. Specifically the Wilken and Young valleys for a missing tramper. That person was found quite quickly, but in dire straits in the Kieran Forks / Siberia...
Over the years I’ve posted often about my predilection for cross country skiing at the Snow Farm, so this week I thought I’d share more of the flavour of the place. It’s rather unique for New Zealand, as it incorporates not only skiing, but vehicle testing and a whole lot of other things. My...
The weather has really been the big topic for discussion for the last several weeks, with the chatter initially being about the snow not coming. Well historically we’ve always been lucky if it came before the old school holiday’s mid term break, but no, marketing spin-doctors steal the show. But now the spell is...
So what did you do for our long NZ holiday weekend? For me every holiday break usually elicits a few memories of trips in our mountains. With the short daylight hours this time of year and accompanying biting cold some memories are quite vivid: A long ways up the Dobson Valley which runs into...
Several years ago or more Ralph Warburton, a well known Wanaka local decided to publish a book of his life’s experiences. As an Apple computer techy I got involved quite often assisting with the technology needed for authoring and self publishing. Ralph sadly passed away subsequently, and so too perhaps in sympathy did his...
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Ceilidh at the Snow Farm
Cardrona valley hoar frost, Central Otago, New Zealand
Historic Bendigo gold diggings - Central Otago, New Zealand
Poolburn, Central Otago, NZ ~ Mylee and the fisherman
Waiau bridge enroute to the Kepler Track
Roger and Kara ~ wedding, Lake Wanaka
Folk singer Phil Garland at the Cardrona Folk Festival
St Kilda beach ~ Dunedin
Bendigo historic gold diggings ~ Central Otago NZ
Meg Hut - Central Otago
Lake Wanaka
Nesting banded dotterel ~ Bird survey - Makarora
New Zealand falcon ~ Benmore Peak, Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand
A New Zealand endangered species ~ buff weka family
Autumn in my garden
Ice plant ~ Otago Harbour
Rhododendron ~ Wanaka Station Park
Dunedin Botanical Gardens
In amongst Mt Alpha bluffs with my ever enduring companion
Roys Peak from Damper Bay Lake Wanaka NZ
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A random selection of about 20 of Donald's images
Concepts on how New Zealand landscape photography and fine art can be used to stimulate our imaginations to make the world a better and more gentle place.
With photos, and some words, we explore with nomadic tendencies and inherited wizardry, all that is New Zealand, and it did not all begin with Lord of the Rings!
Cheers Donald Lousley
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