NZ Pealings racing
Douglas and Gethin were both racing today.
Gethin was racing in the Otago Championships Kart race, and Douglas was racing in the Southland Schools Orienteering Championships.
The Otago Champs is a trophy that Gethin has pretty much made his own - he's won it in every class he's competed in. This year he's in a different class - Rotax Max.
Wild wildlife
We had an interesting morning.
firstly the snow. This is carrying on.
Then I was making breakfast and heard a thump on the patio window. Looked up and saw feathers on the window and a New Zealand Falcon flying away. There was a rather concussed thrush on the patio.
Nicky reckoned the falcon would return, and sure enough, a few minutes later, there it was on the lawn. I expected it to quickly swoop onto the thrush, but the building must have hindered it, so instead it stalked it:
birthday
Road Trip
Sax in a Kayak
Had to work Sunday
Paddling on Lake Te Anau
"O" yeah
Central Otago Rail Trail
This last weekend, about an 8th of my school's roll got up at 4:30 a.m. to compete in a two-day team duathlon race. Of course, this 8th of the school consisted of about 25 students. So after working till 11 the previous night, and not sleeping well, I got all of 3 1/2 to 4 hours of sleep. Anyway. Bleary-eyed and slightly grumpy, my team piled into the double-cab Mazda pick-up truck - which was WAY to small for 4 teenagers and a typical Kiwi bloke. After an ice-cream for breakfast at 8, we rocked up at the start of the Rail Trail in Clyde about 8:30 a.m.
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