Back from planet Kiwi

That's me playing the ukulele on the plane home from NZ. I've dropped off the face of blogging earth for a while. It's been 3 weeks or so since we left work now but time doesn't have the same quality it used to. I'm finding it hard keeping track of what day it is. I think that's a good thing, for now. It's very relaxing to not have to worry about what day things have to be done by etc etc. We do have a bunch of stuff on the agenda though. We're just not beating ourselves up about what day it's all done by. "As soon as we can" is all the pressure we're putting on ourselves. Which is interpreted on some days as "as soon as we get back from the beach" or "as soon as this program is over" - hehehe.

The sojourn to New Zealand was very pleasant. I think I enjoyed Tasmania more actually, but then possibly just because they are so similar, so I felt like I had been there and done that through some of it, particularly the east coast. The mid-west however was a totally different experience. Here are a few happy snaps taken along the way:

Geez I forget where these were but they were unreal:

Strange "extra sun" at Arthur's Pass:

Kea trying to take our camper apart. They are reknowned for this:

Christchurch tourist tram:

The obligatory sheep shot:

Path along an old railway site south of Hokitika:

Franz Joseph Glacier:

Fox Glacier close up:

Land of the long white cloud:

Christchurch:

Somewhere on the west coast:

Rainbow near the Mahitahi River:

Lake Moeraki:

Sunset at Knight's Point:

Roaring Billy Falls:

Blue Pool:

AJ Hackett bungee - the brothers are deciding whether to bungee using their own cords:

Chinese miner's settlement at Arrowtown:

Arrowtown cemetery:

Tiny 6-seater from Queenstown to Milford Sound:

On the Milford Sound cruise:

Queenstown:

Jetboating - a view from a very dodgy bridge. This is Skipper's Cayon, the river used for the flood shot from Lord of the Rings:

The rock used for the view up to the Road to Mordor:

Some nut: