Heading home
/0 Comments/in Landscape, Mostly Photos, Mountains, New Zealand, Travel/by CodyThe sun is getting low on the horizon on my final full day here in NZ. Tomorrow I fly from Christchurch to Auckland, then it’s back to foggy California. Today was my first free day this week, the previous 6 were spent sitting at the car market trying to sell my van; which I managed to do yesterday, at last. At least the sky parted today and the sky was blue (well, mostly) unlike the cold and wet weekend.
Goodbye New Zealand…
Return to Golden Bay
/0 Comments/in Climbing, Landscape, Mostly Photos, New Zealand, Travel/by CodyDespite the name, Golden bay has been everything but ‘golden’ in the last week. Rain, rain, and a bit more rain. Despite this, a few days on the rock have still be managed. Here’s a few photos of myself at work and play. And no, I dont wear the same black pants every day…
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A few pics I’ve managed between the rain.
A Week Among Giants
/0 Comments/in Climbing, Landscape, Mostly Photos, Mountains, New Zealand, Travel/by Cody10 days in Mt. Cook national park:
Alright, I guess I should add some words for the first time in a long while. Yes, I’m still alive. Tomorrow I get on a plane for a week in Tahiti. At that time, I’m going to book my flight home, sometime around May 15 give or take. But I wont be home for long, only a few weeks. Then it is north, to follow the summer again, up into the arctic and the midnight sun; which I haven’t seen in 5 long years…
I’ve been up before sunrise every day for the last 2 weeks; bitterly cold in the morning, especially when it had been raining for 3 days straight and all your clothes are wet, with no hope of drying. At which point you give up and goto sleep at 6:30 in the evening, too lazy or tired or cold even to bother cooking dinner; since it will be either rice and or beans in tomato sauce, which you have eaten for the last 4 days straight since all the fresh food you had ran out and your bread went moldy. But even here, the sun returns, and you find yourself 100 meters up the side of a cliff with a bit more to go, watching the next storm approach from the west, hoping the rain will at least wait until you have finished climbing. Its cold and windy, but you cant decide if its worth the effort to pull you jacket out of your pack, since its not that cold. Back to the shelter and within 5 mins the rain starts falling.
How did a picture of me get on here? Careful your monitor doesn’t break!
Six Weeks of Life…
/0 Comments/in Landscape, Mostly Photos, Mountains, New Zealand, Travel/by CodyIf a photo is worth a thousand words, then here are 22 thousand words for the last six weeks of my life. In reality though, no words can can do justice to these days now gone…
The Long and Lonely Road
/0 Comments/in Landscape, Mostly Photos, New Zealand, Travel/by CodyNot long after dawn this morning. The van and I alone again, on the road to nowhere…
Hittin’ the Road Again
/0 Comments/in Cities, Landscape, Mostly Photos, New Zealand, Random stuff, Travel/by CodyThis may be my last post for a bit, as I’m off traveling again. I think I will head north, though nothing is written in stone. I just came to the realization that I haven’t seen the ocean in over 2 months; the longest period in my entire life. I can hear the sea calling my name and to her I must go, I think. Here’s a few random photos in the meantime.
Bit of a Scare
/0 Comments/in New Zealand, Random stuff, Travel/by CodySo I’m using my day off today to drive into Queenstown to have a WOF (warrant of fitness) check done on my van. About 10 minutes from town while driving along the winding road between QT and Glenorchy at about 100km/hr, I suddenly hear a large “boom!” and my windshield is completely shattered, couldn’t see a thing. The semi-truck in front of me threw a rock off the back wheel right at me, never saw it coming. Luckily it was on a straight section of road, else I probably would have gone off the edge. I pulled into a turnout, and then proceeded to remove the shattered remains of my windshield. So then there I was, driving into QT without a window on my van, must of been a pretty funny sight. Luckily I found a repair shop and will get it fixed tomorrow, which means the hour drive back to QT again. I just hope there isn’t a southerly or it might not be a fun ride. No rain allowed either! On the way back north I got stung in the ear by a bee, it’s still hurting several hours later.
Lake Wakatipu
/0 Comments/in Landscape, Mostly Photos, Mountains, New Zealand, Travel/by CodyLake Wakatipu, where upon the northern shores my days pass. Every morning as the light awakens me I walk by and gaze while on my way to breakfast. At Lunch, I sit on the lawn or sometimes down by the shore. After dinner I may take a short walk, just to look at the light. The mountains above Glenorchy see the last light of the day as the sun falls in the west. Not a bad view day in and day out…
Bird Attack
/0 Comments/in Mostly Photos, New Zealand, Random stuff, Travel/by CodyBy accident while wandering along a riverbank in Mt. Aspiring nat park, I found myself under attack. At first I was scared, until I realized the bird wouldn’t hit me. Then I thought it might make a good photo oprotunity, thus I subjected myself to 20 minutes of attacks by various birds. Here are the results:
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