Road Trip

Looking down on Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu.

Sunset over Lake Wakatipu.
Para gliding over Lake Wakatipu.

Road Trip

Carson and Eric downtown Auckland
Carson loading the $1400.00 van. We drove over 1000 miles and added no oil. Nock on wood.
New Years Eve , Camping on some farmers land for the New Years concert.
Mike, Eric, Carson North Island

We are alive

Hello everyone,
Mike and I have been very busy working on Sundance this last week. The days are long with daylight so we have been taking advantage of this to get some much needed boat projects off the list.
We had a great 12 day road trip with our friend Eric Barden and in the next few days I will post some great pictures of the trip. Our plan in the next few weeks is to head north and west and do some surfing and camping along the west coast of the north island. The north coast has some incredible surf and the surfers are very friendly and love to share the break. Most of the coast line reminds me of the central and northern coast of California.
We have made several friends in the marina and tonight we are having three boats over for Mikes famous Thai Curry. The locals around the marina tell us of good scallop and lobster diving not far from the marina so hopefully this weekend we will have some fresh sea food for a weekend feast. The weather is cool we have had a few hot days. Today it is cloudy and the temp should get to 65 degrees.

Queenstown

The adrenaline rush,we missed flying so much we had to fly the Fly- By -Wire Sled. The engine driven sled is lifted 100 ft into the air and when you are given the signal you release yourself for a powered dive into this canyon. The sled is held by a cable and you command the sled like a skate boarder in a half pipe. The name of the game is to fly the sled to the max height up then by using the controls turn the sled back down towards the ground. The sled is suspended in the middle of a canyon and this gives you great freedom to swing as high as you can. What a rush . The first picture is Mike , then Carson, and the last picture is Eric A.K.A Metro

The New Year

Happy New Year. Mike and I are back in New Zealand. We had good trips home and were did the time go? We have been on a very fast track this last week. We have a good friend Eric Barden visiting us. We left Auckland on the 31 December and have seen the east coast of the North Island and then drove to Wellington. Caught the ferry to the South Island and made the drive to Queens town for a week. We will work our way back to Auckland around the 9th. I will upload pictures when we are back in Auckland. When Eric leaves we will spend a week on Sundance ( maintenance). We will then spend the next four months driving the west coast of the North Island camping and surfing. Later in Feb we will be heading down to the South Island and backpacking and fly fishing. I will update our locations and give some good info and pictures. Thanks for all the emails and comments.