Swimming Stags

This is a cool article and pic from Stuff.co.nz


Stag surprises fisherman

I saw something similar once when in deepest, darkest Fiordland, in the Dark Valley in fact. We were trying to work out how to get round cliffs at Lake Grave, when a wapiti (large deer) jumped out from the bush and swam round the bend. Amazing to see, put the wind up us at the time though!

On a similar tangent we saw young seals swimming up a river by the dozen to play in a waterfall in Kaikoura on the way back from Wellington on Monday- will pop a pic or two up when we get the chance to upload them

Kepler training

Well underway. Had some niggles this year but about to pop over the 1200km mark for the year and looking better than I have in an August before. Still much work to do though....wanting to do 8 hours this year!

England

Now I don't pretend to follow soccer much, but this is genuinely funny, as stolen from Pandasport



The Football Association today proudly unveiled Total, fcuk and UPS as the new sponsors of the England football team. ‘The combination of these three corporate giants perfectly captures the ethos of the England side,’ said an FA spokesman. ‘After all, they had nothing in the tank when it counted, and they’ve proved themselves to be a bunch of expensive posers who always fail to deliver.’

The new shirts come in a range of bright ‘easy to spot’ colours after claims from England players that the old kit was painted in ‘magic invisible ink’ which made it impossible to pick out an easy and obvious pass to a team mate. The new shirts are also made of a super lightweight material, unlike the old tops which were apparently made of extra-heavy chain mail which left the Premiership stars lumbering around looking exhausted and unfit. However, one criticism has been made of the design of the new England kit with claims that the neck hole was inexplicably too small for the heads of the Premiership stars.

Players say this will make it very hard to pull the shirt off during an over-exuberant goal celebration, but a spokesman for the manufacturers said ’we don’t envisage this being a problem.’

Just another day in paradise

I love being able to knock off work, nip up the hills and see stuff like this...for free :)

Its been a bloody wet winter here in ChCh, not much snow but there has been a crapload over in the mountains. Off tramping next weekend to have a look at the new Hawdon Hut, so will post something after that.