The next few adventures are much shorter, but there are numerous pictures that accompany them, as you my audience have been patient with the words and no pictures.
October first here in Rotorua is a big day in that several lakes around the area open up. Fishing here is year round except a certain few areas and lakes, which allows for safe fish spawning. Allen, Bevins and I hit the road at 5am towing the boat
Jo Blogg's for the lake Terawera. We were probably one of 350 boats that day that hit the lake. It was almost scary as when we started out it was dark and raining and no illumination. Imagine knowing that there are over three hundred boats on a lake a quarter of which probably had too much to drink and here we are speeding at maximum propeller RPM for a fishing spot! The day turned out pretty great as we caught 6 fish (three of which were mine) average fish was about 22 inches and 6-7 pounds. The fish eventually stopped biting so we pulled the boat home and promptly gutted filleted and smoked the fish with brown sugar and salt using Manuka wood.
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| the lake coast line |
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| rainy days... |
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| just fishing |
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| Me the fish and good ol' Jo Bloggs |
The second part of the adventure was an invitation to go to a sheep farm and help them dock lambs, it was decent hard work and a good look at NZ sheep husbandry and farm life, however the work was nothing compared to branding late calves with my uncles!
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| Well call me Wal Footrot |
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| Sunset over the farm |
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| New Zealand bob sled team! |
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| True kiwi form, shorts and rubber gum boots |
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| Ferocious farm dog |
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| View of me and the farm |
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This will be the last post for the next week as I am supervising a trip of high schoolers on the great walk around lake Waikaremoana. I hope all of you have a great weekend and a wonderful week to come. Cheers
The photos are fantastic and the landscape is just gorgeous down there!
ReplyDeleteSounds like such a great break for you!
Good luck with the high school trip this week!