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long hot summer nights: mini-invasion
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Friday, January 16, 2009. I saw my first couple of rhino beetles. Troddling clumsily down the road today whilst on my travels. I remember when I was here last time there was an outbreak of them in the Summer of near-biblical proportions - you had to be careful where you stepped they were literally everywhere! Wonder if it'll happen again this year. Anyway I'll try and take a half-decent pic of the miniature-monsters to post here . Want to see the Rhino Beatle Trail! January 21, 2009 at 7:42 PM.
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND: A COUPLE OF SHORTER MISSIONS
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND. Monday, 19 January 2009. A COUPLE OF SHORTER MISSIONS. Had a spin around 'Fernhill Loop' today. Was a nice wet afternoon, so I felt quite at home playing in the damp woods. Almost made me homesick. After a nice climb in the woods you get back in the open and skirt around the top of the hill. Just before you descend you get a wicked view down to Lake Wakatipu and the. Remakables. Which were hiding in cloud today. Too much like hard work. 21 January 2009 at 14:41.
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long hot summer nights: long exposures from new years eve
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Friday, January 2, 2009. Long exposures from new years eve. This is the view from the cincho (its like a miniature house at the back of the garden) looking back towards Alejandros mums house, where we spent new year. Everyone waiting with baited breath for the food to arrive! We managed to get up on the roof at midnight for the fireworks which turned out to be like a 360 degree show, things exploding all over the place which was ace! Pretty hard to get a decent photo though. That tree foto is ace!
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long hot summer nights: November 2008
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. After the wedding everyone bussed it back home via Montevideo where I had the fortune of getting off and not getting back on the coach, as I stopped off for a wee visit to Montevideo to see my mate Adam from Boston who's supposedly teaching English in the area. First port of call was the fantastic beach at the southern end of town. I think it was called the playa de los pocitos. They had some pretty good murals in places on the wall that cordons the beach from the street.
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND: December 2008
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND. Sunday, 28 December 2008. MONDAY MISSIONS : SKIPPERS CANYON. Soooo, Monday Missions is all go! Todays mission was the 'Pack Track'. A beautiful bit of singltrack heading down 'Skippers Canyon'. A good 15min of pure downhill singletrack. What more could you want! The view from (almost) the start of the 'Pack Track'. Looking back over to the 'Remarkables' mtn range. Remarkable isn't it. Just over to the left was an awesome view over to 'Arrowtown'. So at some stage it was a pub.
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long hot summer nights: December 2008
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Thursday, December 25, 2008. I'd forgotten that people open their presents at midnight on xmas eve here, after a slap-up dinner which this year we ate round at Sonias house. L-R: Tony, Alejandro, Graciela, Sonia, Santiago, Anamaria, Adri / me (depending on which version of the photo you're looking at). Mimi enjoyed playing with the wrapping paper after the opening frenzy, if only it was so easy to please everyone . So all thats left to say is Merry Xmas everybody and thanks for all the crazy presents!
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long hot summer nights: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Japanese gardens, palermo. These are actually from last November when I got back to the japanese gardens in Palermo, serenely beautiful little oasis in the middle of the parks area of the city. I could have spent all day there. I found this cool effect on my camera which isolates the colour of your choice and takes the rest of the photo in black and white, the results were quite interesting with the striking red bridges, blue sky and green foliage to choose from.
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND: January 2009
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND. Monday, 19 January 2009. A COUPLE OF SHORTER MISSIONS. Had a spin around 'Fernhill Loop' today. Was a nice wet afternoon, so I felt quite at home playing in the damp woods. Almost made me homesick. After a nice climb in the woods you get back in the open and skirt around the top of the hill. Just before you descend you get a wicked view down to Lake Wakatipu and the. Remakables. Which were hiding in cloud today. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND: WYNYARD FREESTYLE PARK AKA THE RIDE TO WORK
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BENS TRAVELS IN NEW ZEALAND. Saturday, 20 December 2008. WYNYARD FREESTYLE PARK AKA THE RIDE TO WORK. This is the local DH/jump park, around 5 min from my house and is my ride to work! Hmmm, 'Proffessional jump's'. I've got all summer for that! The 'Hub', where the smaller jumps are. All designed for 'big' bikes which makes for a good time! The start of the 'Mini Dream' track. From top right with a small step down into a flat(ish) launch (left in picture), setting you up for the hip jump!
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long hot summer nights: January 2009
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Friday, January 16, 2009. I saw my first couple of rhino beetles. Troddling clumsily down the road today whilst on my travels. I remember when I was here last time there was an outbreak of them in the Summer of near-biblical proportions - you had to be careful where you stepped they were literally everywhere! Wonder if it'll happen again this year. Anyway I'll try and take a half-decent pic of the miniature-monsters to post here . Friday, January 2, 2009. Long exposures from new years eve.
