MAY!

Wowzers been a while...sorry about that. No worries though, all is well in the land of the long white cloud. The month of May is the Southern Hemispheres' equivalent of November for all those on the upper half of the Earth. Thus, it was a very slow month for kayaking in NZ, much like a November in the PNW, not enough rain, no more snow melt, and with out Thanksgiving. Well that's all really, enjoy the update.

The lack of kayaking has enabled me to go exploring via NZ's trails which can be just as fun as the rivers.

Old hut in the middle of nowhere

Heading into the fog

Hmm, where is all the water...?

Here is a bit of what campus looks like

Lincoln!

This is the library that houses all the maps that I poor over while planing the next weekends adventure!


KEAAAAAAAA!! Alpine parrot = oxymoron

Maps and Mountains!

Pan-o-ram-o!

Barker Hut made for a fun weekend.

Amazing place to put a hut.

Honest to goodest this is the view you get while sitting on the toilet seat at Barker Hut, Sweet as!

Room with a view.

This is some of the best whitewater I have seen all month.

Taking a look around.

Rock careins lead the way.




More weekends, more huts. This one was awesome!

Looking down the valley one must hike up to get this little hut of happiness

Why ford a river when you can ride this sweet thing!

Days are getting very short so we had to hike from sun up to sun down most days.

Another weekend another hut!

What NZ might look like if wore gray contacts...

Very stoic shot.

Time to reflect.

Unfortunately some excuse for a human being decided to break into my car while out on the trail one weekend...They looted the car which, thankfully, didn't have much in it, but they did take my Pop-Tarts that came all the way from the states....baster's

Well that brings us up to date. Finals start in a few days here at Lincoln, my last one is on the 12th of June, then I have 21 days off...wooohooo! not really sure what I'm doing over break. But all of it will make it onto the blog in good time.

-Over and out