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Photo of the Day #17 (SE Asia Day 7 – Koh Samui)

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Ross

Travels in South East Asia August-September 2011. Koh Samui had certainly changed a lot since 1977 when I first visited. But we could hardly believe our luck when we landed on a lovely laid-back end of a fairly busy Lemai … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #16 (SE Asia Day 6 – Koh Samui)

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Ross

Travels in South East Asia August-September 2011. Lemai Beach on Koh Samui (island) in Thailand was a lovely place to wake up. We were at the quiet end of the beach and that was busy enough for us. Later in … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #15 (SE Asia Day 5 – Koh Samui)

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Ross

Day 4 of our travels last year ended with a mini-bus hurtle from Penang north to the Thailand border, a bizarre border town where we temporarily lost a passenger and found an elephant in the main street, and eventually a … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #14 (SE Asia Day 4 – Penang Hill)

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Ross

Continuing my trip down memory alley, Day 4 of our South East Asia travels last year began on Penang Island and ended hurtling north in Thailand – on a big bus with a loud video playing. We’d been in Georgetown … Continue reading →

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Once More Into the Sounds

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Ross

Tuesday was get-out-of-Dodge-City day – we left Blenheim for “the Sounds”. The Marlborough Sounds. Pelorous sound to be specific. With a stop for lunch at Pelorous Bridge, we eventually wound our way into Okiwi Bay and then over another hill … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #13 (SE Asia Day 3 – Penang)

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Ross

The third day of our travels last year was the first day we woke and went to bed in the same place. We got off to a flying start but hoped to spend at least a couple of nights in … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #12 (Snowcaving on the Old Man)

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Ross

Most winters the Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club organises a snowcaving trip to the Old Man Range in Central Otago. A snowcave is a hole (cave) dug into a snow bank to sleep in. It’s an important thing to learn … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #11 (SE Asia Day 2 Penang)

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Ross

Day 2 of our travels in South East Asia last year dawned in Butterworth after an overnight train trip north from Kuala Lumpur. A short ferry ride later we were on Penang Island and navigating through the streets of Georgetown … Continue reading →

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On the Road Again

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Ross

We’ve just finished another lot of working. 14 days straight at the motels in Blenheim. My daughter Laura and her boyfriend Charlie came to visit for the first part, and that was lovely. The sun came to visit for the … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #10 (Esquilant Bivy)

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Ross

When is a hut not a hut? When it’s a bivy. Boom boom! Back in the old days many mountain huts were small. It was a long way up there for one thing. They probably had to carry everything up. … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #9 (SE Asia Day 1 – Kuala Lumpur)

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Ross

These warm days in Blenheim remind us a bit of our travels last year in South East Asia. Except the humidity was a whole lot higher. And the sights were a whole lot different. It’s fun to go back through … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #8 (Super Sunset New Plymouth)

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Ross

Wyn and I were talking this morning about that Dunedin sunrise and how maybe it was the best we have seen. Wyn remembers ringing me to alert me to it. And then we got to talking about what might have … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #7 (Another Dunedin Dawn)

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Ross

As I mentioned in Photo of the Day #6, Dunedin does delightful dawns. This was another of those mornings. 31st of May 2007 to be precise. It started off lovely, and developed into spectacular. And then it kept on going. … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #4a (Green Hut Revisited)

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Ross

There was some doubt about my first picture of Green Hut in Photo of the Day #4 (Green Hut). Sister Wendy thought the chimney was on the other end. In denial, I suggested maybe the chimney got repositioned in the … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Day #6 (Dunedin Dawn)

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Ross

Blenheim blue skys are lovely, don’t get me wrong. But there’s something about Dunedin clouds. Especially at dawn and dusk. Fabulous sunrises and sunsets. And none better than those looking down the harbour. Dunedin’s West Harbour suburbs used to be … Continue reading →

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