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  • Matukituki Waterfalls

    Some photos of waterfalls in the West Matukituki valley, taken during a tramping trip with Chris Laing on New Years Eve in 2010.

  • Matukituki valley

    Some views of the Matukituki valley taken during a tramping trip with Chris Laing on New Years eve 2010.

    Shovel flat in West Matukituki valley. Mount Aspiring is hidden in clouds above and Pearl flat is behind the small mound of trees.

    Original version of panorama here.

  • Road trip to Christchurch

    I spent a day packing boxes of lunches for the student volunteer army in Christchurch. We managed to prepare over 17,000 lunches 🙂 We in fact prepared so many, that they wouldn’t all fit in the truck being used to transport them to Christchurch, and so Ed Waite and myself carted them up in Ed’s Landcruiser.

    Ed Waite in Palmerston, en route to Christchurch
    The authorities were requesting for out of towners to stay away from Christchurch and not to assist with the quake cleanup, so the only destruction we got to see were some wonky road signs and a couple of area of liquifaction such as this before heading out of town.

  • Night out with the stars

    Sushi was missing from the photo, so I added her in, along with everyones favourite star of the day.

  • Night out with Sushi

    Great night out with my new flatmate Sushi, Rose, Jordy and Amy.

    Amy, Rose, Jordy and Ryan Hellyer at The Break
    Sushi and Ryan Hellyer
    Sushi and Jordan
    Ryan Hellyer and Rose
    Ryan Hellyer and Amy
    Rose and Ryan Hellyer
    Jordy and Rose

  • Mt St John

    Panorama taken from on top of Mt St John (near Lake Tekapo) showing Lake Alexandrina. Download high resolution version.
    Church of the Good Shepherd, on the Lake Tekapo waterfront
    Panorama taken from on top of Mt St John, showing Lake Tekapo. Download high-resolution version.
    Lake Tekapo township as seen from Mt St John

  • Christchurch quake

    During the hour after the earthquake in Christchurch on February 22nd 2011, the major New Zealand news sites were suffering overloading/performance problems, so this post was used to distribute photos until the news network sites became usable again.

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  • Matukituki beach

    An awesome little beach beside the Matukituki river that Chris Laing and I had lunch at on New Years Eve in Mount Aspiring National park.

  • Pearl flat

    Chris Laing and I camped at Pearl flat which sits below Mount Aspiring. Since no one else was stupid enough to go camping with the sand flies, we had the whole area to ourselves 🙂 The sand flies weren’t a major nuisance and seemed to avoid stinging us so long as we smothered ourselves in regular dollops of deet.

  • Poolburn dam face

    Some photos from the face of the Poolburn dam. The ice was very thick right beside the dam face due to the shadow it cast.