Time for a catch up :)
First, I've been having a few technical difficulties latley. Mainly caused by the fact that the laptop I usually use has been retired. Another one is to be forthcoming. The sooner the better. In the interim I am reduced to blogging, and emailing on Windows '98 with a 233mhz processor. Yawwwn.
To rub salt in, it won't let me instant message (because apparently I am corupt; I don't know who told them). And the final fatal nail in the coffin that made me throw my hands in the air and go camping? It wouldn't recognise my camera. I was insulted. I had to go into work this evening just to offload my pictures of the weekend.
I've been to westport and back to kite buggy. The scenery was better than the wind.
I arrived at Carters Beach (near Westport on the West Coast of the South Island) at about 3pm. There was a weak wind and big C-Quads (8.5m and over) were the only choice for buggying. The big fish in the photo was having trouble staying aloft.
The sutble sunset from the South end of Carters Beach on Saturday night.
Looking North on Carters Beach.
There were quite a few of these jellyfish washed up on the beach. At first I tried hard to avoid them in the kite buggy, worried they might still be capable of stinging. I stopped worrying when I saw a group of kids happily hurling them at each other.
The wind this morning in Westport was full of rain and Northerly. The wrong direction for a West facing beach like Carters, but perfect for a North facing one like Rabbit Island, back in Nelson. I headed home in time to get a good run in a cranking wind on Rabbit Island Beach about 4pm.
The drive home was made even better by some fast changing light in the buller gorge. With everything wet from the passing showers and glowing when the sun regularly broke through the clouds, the always breathtaking scenery was even more so today. I stopped often for picture. Here are just a few of the Buller River.
10:23:34 PM 
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