Morning has broken!

Sunrise on the lower Waimakariri, at the confluence with the Kaiapoi river.

Camping! Yay!!

First camping since winter!  Roll on 8 months of consistent camping.

Kisses for the cuties

Turning back the years again with this one.  This is Elijah's first day home.

Kisses for the boys...

A gray day at Karaki beach

I love the beach just down the road from our house. although when the sea fog rolls in, everything becomes somewhat mono-chromatic.

Something still stands in Cathedral Square!

The Cathedral may be gone (or going).  Maybe they should re-name it Chalice Square?

Its a plane Jim, but not as we know it.

Something a bit different today.

We live about 30km from Christchurch airport, under the flight path.

This is a time exposure of a plane going over our house at night.  The lines you see are its running lights, and the dots the flashing one's.

Its interesting to note they have the traditional green on the starboard, red on the port.  I never noticed that about planes before.

Jakob's first tramp

I'm delving back in time a bit here.

This is Jakob's first tramp, a classic for kids into Lake Daniells in the Lewis Pass.

Jakob was still only three when we did this, and looking back at the photos now, tiny.  He was a real trooper, but naturally enough took his time (6 or so hours to get in).  Here he with his first view of the hut at the end of the first day.

There were heaps of older kids at the hut, and going out the next day Jakob did his dardenest to keep up with them all, hence we were out in three hours! (and Jakob was fast asleep about 10 minutes after that!)