Sarah looks very pleased with herself here. Dan the wonderhorse must have been a good boy! This is down at the local horse hangout.
Below, Jack takes a ride on Dan. They’re both groovers!
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Day trip to Tekapo
I took a day off work and took the family to Lake Tekapo for a cruisy day. Lovely weather, and was just nice to hang out. We went to the salmon farm as well, fed the fish and bought some for friends. A lovely day!
A play in the river…
We had a lovely surprise with Sarah’s Mum, Uncle Gary and Auntie Judy dropping in with their bus. They just decided to drive down to Christchurch to surprise us! Awesome.
They stayed for a few days and Jackson loved having them here…
One day, before dinner we decided to take the Jet Kayaks down to the Waimakariri Gorge to have a play. Here’s some Photos:
That’s Uncle Gary and us just getting ready…
Taking Jackson for a ride around the river…
The beautiful Sarah and charming Jackson take a moment to smile for the camera!
Sarah’s mum Shirley just relaxing in the sun!
Julians Headshots
These are the headshots I had done today. We’re starting to need them for the ProWorkflow business. What do ya think people?
Ben and Julian at Motenau
On Monday Ben Viv and I decided to take a fishing day at Motenau. It’s true offshore Canterbury fishing, and has a tricky shallow bar you need to cross in only certain conditions within a tight timeframe either side of the low tide. Our boat sits about 60cm deep in the water and the whole way down the river and out the water was averaging 50-70cm – so man she was tight!
Over the bar’s waves and into the open ocean it was ver clear that the 2 metre swell was here to stay. It was confused sea, coming from two direction in a motion that made us pretty green.
Once over the bar, we are unable to come back for 4hrs til the tide is right, so we decided that we’d get out to the spot. I had marked the fishing spots on the GPS so we drove about 6kms up the coast and 3kms out and got within a few metres of the spot!
The fish were biting, but our lunch was coming up. We both spent about 3hrs vomiting over the side and attempting to fish in between chucks!
We both caught plenty of fish, but Ben caught the ‘keepers’ and also hooked into something huge that fought hard for 10 mins before breaking off. We think it was a huge shark!
As soon as the tide was right, we got ourselves together and got back in over the bar. Land sweet land!! I think I like Motenau – not a 1st choice spot but I would do it again… Just never again on a 2 metre confused sea!
Some shots above of the river going out to the bar. Very shallow and tricky but doable if careful.
Ben hooking into a massive fish! I wish we could have see what it was! We suspect he had either a shark or a Mack Truck.
The pictures don’t show it but Ben’s looking serious as we were getting into some decent waves ahead.
The Bar is by the rock. This is about 1/2 way to the spot we fished.
After crossing the bar, coming back up the river…
Molly the wonderhorse!
Liz popped over with Molly to say hi. Jack made sure he got a ride.
Early Morning Wakeboarding!
We took off this morning at 7:30am through a cold southerly drizzle for a morning wakeboarding at Lake hood. It was Julian, Sarah, Jackson and Ben that went. Sarah’s first time, and she did really well! Here’ a vid of me playing around…
And here’s Ben having a blat!
Jacksons Birthday Party!
The crew came over today to celebrate Jackson’s second birthday! Plenty of sugar for all the kids meant that they all had a good time! Jack had a few meltdowns but he got through it! The people that visited were: Liz & Ferg, Jess & Pete (with Tim and Sam), Ben & Rose (with Ella and Grace) and Lesley… 
Family Fishing Trip to Coleridge
We woke up today and the weather looked just perfect for a wee backcountry jaunt. So I told the family “We’re going!”, we packed the boat and took off to Lake Coleridge.
It was the first time that only Sarah, Jackson and I had put the boat in with just us. The wind was fairly non-existant, and it was a great morning. We got the boat in ok and took off around the lake. After a bit of sightseeing, I showed Sarah how to troll for trout.
We saw fish and they weren’t biting, so scooted back to the South side of Ryton Bay and Sarah took over as Skipper. She drove the boat and kept us over the fish. We hooked up! I landed a small (but very eatable) salmon.
It was great to be with Sarah and Jackson when I caught the fish – and even better because Jackson now knows what fishing is! A great day was had by all!
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