It's called study

and I love it!
I spent 2 days at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary again this week, going over some monitoring techniques for restoration projects.

It's a hard life!

View from the Top Dam

Curves that always make me smile

I don't know what it is about Kapiti Island, but I just love looking at it!
I took this pic driving up to Uni last week, there was a car crash up the road, the traffic had piled up and we had to stop and wait, so I took the opportunity.

Feeling right at home in Petone

Even in the depths of industrial Petone, there are reminders of where I'm from!

For those that need a geography lesson, Nevis St is named after Ben Nevis, which is the highest mountain in the UK, and just down the road from where I grew up.

Lochy St is named after Loch Lochy (or maybe the River Lochy which runs out of it).

Loch Lochy is where our fish farm was, which was called Lochy Trout - the line was "Look out for Lochy Trout", how cheesy is that?! The fish farm was in Banarkaig Bay, which is also on the map, along with A which is the loch and B which is the hill:

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Balls are awesome

when you can make them work together ;)
This is what 714 of them look like - its 6 minutes but more than worth it!

It's a GIANT...

... earthworm!
There I was, minding my own business and doing some gardening at someones house, and I found this!

Not the best photo I know, but you get the idea! Its actually only a small one - apparently they can grow to 4' 6" north of Auckland... Not as impressive as the ones in Aussie which can get to 3m - but still pretty cool!
Thankfully I've got better photos of one that we found in Nelson Lakes a few years ago

And don't worry EJ didn't actually get round to eating it!

The Weta Cave

is a place in Miramar where Weta Workshop have lots of displays and props from lots of their movies, awesome place to visit if you are a bit of a fan of that kind of thing! I went along to check it out with Danny last week. One tip though - it isn't open on Monday!

Danny looking even shorter than usual!

ooOOooo swords!
His wispy hair was so real.. eww!

When it gets windy at the beach...

... the cars (and the road) get covered in sand!

It looks pretty cool, but I'm VERY glad thats not my car - I have a feeling it isn't healty for them!

Snow at kaitoke!

Well, I went to work at Kaitoke on Saturday night for a wedding, as usual, except this time it snowed for 3 hours! The road home was actually cosed for a bit too, but luckily it warmed up a bit and was raining by the time I wanted to leave - I didn't feel like being stuck up there with 120 drunk wedding guests! It was SO awesome to see the snow coming down, and settling on the ground, but it did make me miss Scotland a bit...

Before...
After!