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...
It’s so much fun up at my local cross country skiing area, the Snow Farm, that I’ve really just been eating, sleeping, skiing and working for some weeks now. As some of you know I’m running a sort of mirror blog on events there of late such as the New Zealand 100% Pure New...
It’s been hard getting up at 5 am to help set up all the wiring and flags for both days this weekend to help with the Winter Games at the Snow Farm, but it’s been really worth it, and I had far more fun than I imagined was possible. I’ve got another blog site...
The weather is looking good on the Met VUW 5 day forecast and the recent snow-fall Gods have co-operated fully for the Pure New Zealand Winter Games 2011 that start on the coming weekend 13th August 2011, at the Snow Farm. The Russian Ski Team is here too and has: one Olympic Champion from...
Writing here raises some questions, like who reads this and since I only know a fraction of the answer of this, then who do I write for? It can be self, and even the manifest ego of same, but it could also be to just pick a topic and “go for it”! To reveal...
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...
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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!
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