(Thanks to Stacey!) Rules for visiting NZ's South Island are:1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Turn your cap right, your head ain't crooked.
3. Let's get this straight: it's called a 'gravel road.' I drive a Ute because
I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're gonna get dust on your Lexus.Drive it or get out of the way.
4. They are cattle. That's why they smell like cattle. They smell like money
to us. Get over it. Don't like it? SH1 goes north, find it and F*** off.
5. So you have a $80,000 car. We're impressed. We have $250,000 Harvesters
that are driven only 3 weeks a year.
6. Every person in the South waves. It's called being friendly. Try
to understand the concept.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of geese/pheasants/ducks/quail
are coming in during the season, we WILL shoot it outta your hand. You better
hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time..
8. Yeah. We eat trout, salmon, deer, pig and duck. You really want sushi
and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.
9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of duck season. It's a
religious holiday, we will observe it.
10. We open doors for women. That's applied to all women, regardless of age.
11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak, or you
can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey.
12. When we set a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables
and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and
Watties Tomato sauce! Oh, yeah - we don't care what you folks in
Ponsonby call that stuff you Eat. . IT AIN'T REAL
CHILLI!!
13. You bring 'Coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and with a
Speights label. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how
to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair...
14. College and High School Rugby is as important here as the All Blacks,
the Highlanders and the Crusaders and a heap more fun to watch.
15. Yeah, we have golf courses, but don't hit the water hazards - it Spooks
the fish.
16. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That
thumpity -thump crap ain't music. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers! Refer back to#1!
17.. For role models refer to the "Mainland Cheese" and "
Speights" boys........... 'good on ya, mate'!
I hope you can begin to understand what a real life is all about!!!
Lake Alexandrina from Mt John
Evening light from the Hotel room in Tekapo
The Cloud Piercer 
Jordan likes it :)
Its hard work this tramping lark
Late afternoon corona sunburst over The Footstool
Mt Sefton looking savage
