OK. So it's been 6 months. We are busy people.

I'm not sure what we are busy doing ,but here are

some photos of us being busy.

In October/Nov I went down to Temuka and inseminated

about 6500 cows (that's busy). Bev came down a couple of times

and on my time off we explored south Canterbury.

This was at the Mt John observatory near Tekapo.

The drive around the Hydro lakes is really scenic.

We got up as far as to Mt Cook village but unfortunately

Cook was behind the clouds.

We had a Christmas eve party at home with kids

and partners , drank far too much , then got up  early

Christmas morning and drove to Rangiora to spend the day

with Bev's mum.

We went camping over the summer out in the sounds.

Caught some cod and kahawai of our kayaks.

It's hard to beat the scenery on a nice day.

In march we biked the beaches at the top of south island

to the Kahurangi light house.

In April we had some time in Northland with

J+D.  We had a day out on one of their friends

boats fishing. I wish we had fish like this in

Queen Charlotte.

We caught up with some Auckland  friends on their deer farm

at Wellsford.

In Ak we met up with friends and flew to Vanuatu.

We stayed here, at the Moorings.

Climbing up the waterfall is fun, then a dip at the top.

We flew down to Tanna island and stayed one night there.

We had been told that the trip up to Mt Yassa

volcano was an amazing experience and it certainly was.

I don't think there can be too many places in the world

 where you can stand on a crater rim looking down at an

erupting volcano. The explosions are enough to make

 your fillings rattle and molten rocks are biffed hundreds

of feet in the air and land only 50 metres in front of you.

It was a really rough 2 hour 4wd drive to get to it

but well worth it.

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Port Villa on our way home.