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Seems like a long time ago already…

View from the top of Nacula island in the Yasawa group, Fiji.
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Wanakafest bin races…jokes…

Moved house: Check. Business picking up: Check. Summer arrived?: Check.

Flo finished 9 days of 5am work in a row: Check.

Massive end of year trip pretty much organised: Check.

Take a breath.

Right lets go have some fun….over to Queenstown for Flo’s birthday weekend.

It was the final day of the season at The Remarkables, and then we went Jet boating…

It’s been a quiet couple of months, but suddenly things have started rolling at a quicker pace…

3 big jobs, last days of the mountain for this season, we’re moving house, and just had some incredibly kind help to make the end of year plans work out (thank you, thank you, thank you!)…it’s a busy week!

This is the location for one job I just shot for a new company (house is on the right)

This is one of the spots we hike to out the back of Cardrona…

From here we rode about 15 minutes down in to the valley, getting fresh tracks all the way down.

But what goes down must come back up and the only way out is to hike again…

Unlike Europe, this is the best chance of powder around here, plus its damn good exercise…

I thought our 1 and half hour steep snow hike out was tough but was put to shame when we went to listen to Stephen Venables do a talk in Wanaka. He was the first Brit to climb Everest without oxygen, and on one of the days he climbed for 16 hours without stopping…epic.

We went over the mountains to Haast on the west coast to try to find some penguins…

After trekking around loads of beaches and through the rainforests, we saw a bunch of penguin signposts and info boards but not a single damn penguin, but it was good fun anyway…

The west coast of the south island has this incredible ancient weathered feel, with massive lush rain forests catching all the rain that falls as snow on our side of the mountains, and miles and miles of empty beaches with huge pounding surf and far too many sand flys.

I’m on a proper mission to see penguins now…stay tuned.

Wanaka Beach at sunset