Sea Kayaking and what nots...

so from last time i have been on yet another sea kayaking trip, but this time it was in my home town down the harbour to Qaurantine Island. :) we ventured off on wednesday in high winds, but luckily had a tail wind so we rafted together and got out a fly and sailed down!!!n it took under half the time it wouldve taken to paddle so we ended up there before dark just as the sun came back out and the wind disappeared! so it made for a lovely evening :) we stayed in the lodge which was very homely and had a night of playing cards, massages and mafia... next day was a sleep in then up to round up some sheep for sheering, this in itself was quite funny :) we went exploring round the island and did a beach clean up and then finally after lunch we did some tree planting which didnt take long and was fun!!! Kirsten jumped int eh wheelbarrow and james pushed it but whilst goin down hill after running over some jumps, james couldnt hod on and kirsten got tipped out hahah was a crak up! photso soon of that :) we spent that afternoon chilling in the sun, juggfling soccer ball and devil sticks and also attempting at fishing but just ended up chilling on teh jetty, watching tim and spanko and mel be nutters int he kayaks :) the next day we left the island and in 40knot winds.... not scary at all nooooo we paddeld to the safety of shore and got picked up yay! gotta go now that wasnt a very excting post but oh well ciao!! xox

a month on from last time....

so what have i been up too...... well...... ive been on two alpine tramps one in 30cm deep snow the whole time!!! was so much fun except for wearing these silly mountaineering boots which gave me my ankles and feet rather nice bruises and swolleness! and then the week straight after that was a five day alpi9ne tramp in Glenorchy, up from Queenstown. we went over the sugarloaf pass which was cool as covered in snow and we did some self arrests with the ice axes so we got to slide down very big hills. lots! was fun! then the week after that we went away on three day/ two day sea kayak from Cromwell to Clyde. was very cool had a really nice sunrise and teh colours on the snowy hills was very nice to look at. we stayed a night at one of the old miners cottage and got to go exploring on the rocky hills :) found some climbs that you could only get to by boat!!! and on the last day we got out the tent flys and sailed down to our destinatinon! was so much fun beacuse ive always wanted to sail that part of the pass, but next time i will be in my sail boat haha
last week was just lectures and being sick.... finally got over it. throwing up ont eh paper run is not ideal!
and now this week is another three day sea kayak trip to Quarantine island with some proposed tree planting for the rugby world cup ness shall be grand.
oh and last saturday we spent the night sitting on the flats roof, looking at the rugby stadium and listening to the England vs Argentina game on the radio and surprisingly this was satisfying enough :)
so i shall go and continue on with this non exciting life.... until then ciao!

Currently.....

Dedicating this post to LULU my fave german girl ! happy birthday for wednesday chick love you and miss you too much xoxox
been a while since last time as usual but the last two weeks i ahve been alpine tramping and up in the snow and going over ther sugarloaf pass in glenorchy was prteyy darn awesome. got a sea kayaking trip this week so will be super busy nce again.
atm i am currently listening to someone to be around lol by six60. they are rather awesome :)

i am still waitng on things to happen and really have no idea how or when they will. this morning whilst in my dreamy state of doing the papers at 5.45am i decided that i should only decide on something when i know everything. but in this case its kind of impossible to do that so i should just get on with things instead of dwelling and wondering and waiting/ ah life...
ok new song its finest wine by six60!!!! yay until next itme xoxoxo

Whitsundays to Cairns Part 2:

 somewhere in Whitsundays

 

On the way to Magnetic Island

Kombi in Bowen

Bowen marina

Me steering

Jake before he jumped and his hiding spot

Jake jumping

Picnic Bay the best bay on Magnetic Island

Our steering guides

Sunset where we saw whales

Celebration drinks

Din dins

Jake in Blue pearl bay sunset

Blue pearl bay sunset. our first one on the trip

Jake and the rum :)

What stopped me from getting home.























Day 8: Monday 18th July
Had bacon and eggs for breakfast and then walked into the township of Bowen. saw a kombi..... the town is very rural so mostly farming nad yea its rich and fancy beside shitty and we saw our first aussie hobo!.... bought some caramel popcorn.... and sent my postcareds. we got supplies from supermarket and had a short taxi bak to the boat. we motored to the public marina to fill up wiht water and the guys took the generator to be fixed. we finally left for our overnight and tomorrow journey to Magnetic Island. Jake made mac and cheese for tea (tis good!), and after that we started our shifts. we saw the sun go down, beautiful clear night sky and then the sun come up 6am. my shift was 3am-6am so i had a wee dance and giggle whilst steering with my music in and also keeping an eye our for whales!

Day 9: Tuesday 19th
finished my watch this morning and drank a hot choc while wtchiang the sun come up. then tried to sleep, tickle monster :P then Marty calling us to see the 2 whales and numerous dolphins!!! was super awesome. we saw lots of whales playing around. had a dip over the side..... whilst in the middle of the ocean and yea just sailed and tanned it up and took pictures all the way until we finally made it to Magnetic Island, and anchored in the dark in Picnic Bay. we had a mean feast, drank wine and watched 9, black books and carl barron so had a good laugh then went to bed!

Day 10: Wednesday 20th
Its Bens birthday!!! he is 22 so i sent him a text this morning. went for a swim off the side of the boat after Jake climbed up the mast and I couldnt find him.... he jumped off from there :), had a late breakfast and just chilled on the boat. We then went into the bay and found a really nice bar right there on the waterfront, it had a set of table and chairs which were made out of tree branches!!!! we then went to Nelly Bay on the bus to look at marina and get some food supplies then back to bus to boat. watched tranformers now sleep.
(some random drawings of a fish cat marshmellowman flower and butterfly...... i was tired)
Had tea then went ashore to the pub and had a couple of rum and cokes. This bay is pretty much unhabited with an amazing view and beach and a great styley pub and restaurant! huge! but just not enough people here. we talked about if you ran a LTS here or for me  a sea kayak business and drived around in a moke!! would be super awesome.... new dream after i travel: start something up in Picnic Bay, Magnetic island and live in teh most amazing place ever!!   now to watch a movie and drink some more!

Day 11: Thursday 21st
Today we motored to Nelly Bay go fuel and travelled to Horseshoe Bay on the other side ish on Magnetic Island. we went ashore and looked at the shops and had a drink on the waterfront! I got some pressies for the fam. We ate fish and chips on the beach in teh hot sun. I/we have decided our next vehicl will be a moke! we are now on teh move to Cairns and as there is literally no wind, we have all sails up and using the motor to bet there. Its going to be a very long 2-3 days if the wind stays like htis so hopefully not.
close encounters 100m range with some sleepi9ng whales, who we had to deviate away from on the tracker. amazing at sunset! i had first watch so 9-12am no wind, saw 3 shooting stars and watched the red moon come up!

Day 12: Friday 22nd
got up 6am to steer the boat and then cook pancakes at 9am then went to sleep and got up round 12pm ate lunch andall of today has been pretty much eat sleep steer the boat, sit and daze so a very long day and atm its only 4:15pm. Im writing outside, jake is steering and we are having snacks... :)  its werid cos we are flying home tomorrow night. sad days.

Day 13: Saturday 23rd
we left our anchor at Fitzroy Island after a night of drinking  a lot of rum and coke after celebrating us finally making it!! so needless to say i had a nice sleep in. we motored into Cairns marina finallyu! and met Danielle and Tony who are the new owners of the boat. we had brekki and went for a wee cruise on the boat to the mooring and had a chat with them, lovely people! we/me marty and jake went for a bit of a shop in Cairns. we walked along the waterfront and saw a million people sunbathing, it was crazy! had a mean as local band playing and walked through and looked at the markets then to the shops which ewas cool. we went back to the baot and i had my first shower of the whole trip!! well proper shower!! you needed s card to get into them, very fancy but awesome best shower ever!!!! bought some more pressies from teh deckshop  marina shop then went out for tea at the fanciest restaurant i've ever been to. they set our place mats and constantly filled our drinksm, they were like freaking eagles!!! butg was cool I had a chicken dish which tasted sooooo good!!Had a good old chat with Jake about the waitors and stuff. Also on the menu was olives stuffed with crocodiles!!!........ the restaurant was kinda outdoors it had no walls and random lil pools of water was amazing. we then taxied it to the airport and sat on the ground until checkin. after we checked in 8.30pm we had till 11pm before our flight. so it was playing cards looking at shops watching black books on jakes laptop and having a quiet one. our flight was delayed so we left at 12am...  we all fell asleep mostly. was a nice plane ride at night :) xox

Day 14: Sunday 24th
had to run through customs etc for the boys to make their Napier flight , so had 15min to say goodbye. Marty gave me a hug and then I hugged Jake, was sad when they left. after Jakes last glance and wave bak and then they were gone. I turned away and had a lil tear but alguds. i walked round the airport and ate and mum rang and had a wee cry and then she made me cry lol then got on my plane from auck to CHCH and made it Chch and waited 5hours whislt it started snowing, went and hung with lynette and Jacqui (2nd,3rd cousins). went back to airport and found my flight to Dunedin was cancelled due to weather..... rang mum and had another wee cry due to tiredness and went and waited in line for an hour whilst making friends with Sarah and some lady. got on the phone and 2 hours after finding EVERYTHING was canecelled due to weather had a flight rebooked for Tues morning. went back and stayed at Lynettes beacuse it was snowind and needed somewhere safe to sleep and had a glorius sleep with a dog snuggled up to me:)

Day 15: Monday 25th
so had a day to spare today i had a pretty good sleep. woke up to a foot of snow!!!!!!! and its been snowing all day so i just ate food, watched tv had a wee play in the snow and then we went driving to teh mall and supermarket and there was shitloads of snow everyhwere. me and jacqui went with her guy friends and had a large snow fight. came home had tea sorted flights and talked to mum. now back at the airport lying on teh floor wiht all my gear and attempting to get comfy for a nights sleep!! have had a rum and coke so now its safety proof gear, pee and sleep. maybe get a pic of my camp at airport and then hope that i fly home tomro morning! xox

Day 16: Tuesday 26th
spent the night at teh airport. was interesting experience, didnt get much sleep as the bright lights were on and annoying "we are a safety conscious airport, please dont let your children play on the esculators", kept on playing all night hahah at 4.30am a security lady came round and woke everyone up beacuse we werent allowed to sleep here anymore and we had to move.... so i walked aorund had breakfast and kept an eye on the screen for my flight. it had check in suspended due to ice in chch for an hour, so i was thinking oh no you dont! just be delayed!!!!!!! but in the end Sarah and I were sitting there and I saw it and was like oh no hell no and it came across the screen "cancelled due to weather". ................ FML!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  so once again a lil cry, ring mum and on the phone to rebookflights.... again....so spent a lot of time on the phone getting food and then mum rang wanting me home ... so i spent an hour booking a bus with sarah for tonight and cancelling my flight for tomro. the lady was pissing herself laughing wehn i said i wanted to cancel, because it was the opposite of what she had heard for the last three days. so now im sitting indoors, waitng for the bus got 2 and hlf hours till i leave chch and finally make hopefully my last leg to home and finish this trip!
ok so i made it home got to the bus station and got  a giant hug from mum and a normal hug from dad lol went home had cake and had to show all phootos and tell my trip story before i finally got to bed at 12am...

it was a grand old trip filled with many twists and turns and surprises but it was still good! saw some amazing places and spent my time with two awesome people that made me smile! thanks

sorry for the jumbled ness of wrds but i copied straight from my log (mostly) and half the time i was writing this i was half asleep lol enjoy xoxoxoox

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to be honest. I feel like I'm not moving forward or back, I'm just skuck in the same place right now.....

A long time coming..... My Whitisundays to Cairns trip Part 1

Ok so I wrote a log whilst on my trip so I will just write it up for you and it gets more exciting as the days go on haha enjoy....

Day 1: Monday 11th July
Get up at 3am, drive down the road to airport. check at 4am :) Fly to Brisbane, saw Aunty Claire and she got me some new chucks!!! waited for Marty and Jake, missed next flight. Jake accidentally picked up wrong bag. go tthat sorted. stayed with aunty claire, was awesome!!!!
(that was from my tiredness of the long day that i could not be bothered writing properly)....

Day 2: Tuesday 12th
Bus, walk, train from Southbank to Airport, fly to Hamilton Island, dodgy landing. Ferry to Airlie beach, bus to Abel point marina but boat was in a different place (back at where we got on the bus...). because it was late we decided to eat and stay at club crocodile (mean hotel with pool and spa!!!). saw a bat in the tree whilst in the spa with jake, he got to see it fly away and he wrote here It was HUUGE!!.

Day 3: Wednesday 13th
Got up, walked to coles, bought food and carried it all back, taxied to marina and found boat, tender motor sucks!!! organised boat, had first gin and tonic at lunch., watched part of up with jake, and sorted music on boat and now have strobe lights cos of the bass.... drinking my first port! YUM!

Day 4: Thursday 14th
Went on the bus to Airlie beach to get supplies. Bought a hat and rum and a dress thing and a pirate flag. Happy herbs.... jake.... shop closed :). had lunch and then motoered out of Shute harbour and sailed to Blue Pearl Bay. I steered for a bit was awesome. Had a few rum and cokes, had tea and now drinking port! gooood niiiiight!!!

Day 5: Friday 15th
Slept in , Jake made pancakes. went for a swim and snorkel on the reef. Sailed to Butterfly Bay, took 4hours..... was cloudy and windy 20-25knots with big waves and was slightly scary but good to sail. would have been faster to motor around in teh calm bits. ate lunch, read with Marty falling asleep and then Jake falling alseep at my feet. now cook tea and chill... :)

Day 6: Saturday 16th
Left Butterfly Bay after a sleep in and a crap sleep with water dripping in my face from the port hole being open and teh cupboard door falling on my head everytime there was a big wave, so went on the big nice mattress. We motored around to Stonehaven and moored up and had lunch then sailed over to Langford island and went walkies. Now back at stonehaven for the night. gonna have drinkies wine and cheese..

(now there is four pages full of random drawings by me and jake, his amazing boats and sharks and lone divers and of course the good bat and bad bat )

Day 7: Sunday 17th
Woke up and started our sail to Bowen. left the clouds behind and endedup in sun!! we had a nice wind bwhind us for most/the whole way so that was super good! It was quite swelly when we first started and i was sailing/steering in my jammies.... again... After lunch we were cruising along and the water was a beautiful blue with hot shining sun! we saw a sea snake, a flying fish and two dolphins!! when we got into bowen , we managed to manouvre the boat into the marina, through a nail biting 1.1m deep channel. Jake steered us, well done to him :). Jake and I went onshore to have a shower. cold water.. and whilst i was in there a frog crawled up out of the drain and there was one in the toilet.... i did scream a lil...
we had tea at the yacht clud and found that we really have our sea legs now!
the stars last night were beautiful and sky so clear! there is an awesome friendly local boatie who looks a bit crazy! but he helped us so that was nice and i swear it was him, but in the darkness we heard  tender putting along so i shone my torch on it and then turned it off and you hear him go "hoo, hoo". nmade us laugh. good old aussies! writing postcards and sleep.

I will leave you with the first week.... tomro or so i will put the rest of it up :) enjoy hahahah

Instead of feeling sorry for myself, I could just do something useful...

Its been a while

so I'm sitting in the ozone computer lab and I pull my chair in closer to the desk, and i whack my freakin knee on the desk!!! It made a super loud noise and hurts a lot and everyone just stares, so that's really not awkward at all no....... But anyway I'm filling in time before i start polytech at 9, we are going kayaking this morning and climbing this afternoon. But it kinda sux cos there was a frost here and so teh water will be FREEZING!!!!!
But anyway, once again I was supposed to write this aaages ago but have been so busy (doing nothng much), so here it is, I have been on a tramp with my friends from poly for our self tramp. We went and did part of the Kepler Track in Milford sound, I loved it! The trees and forest were so green and enchanted looking, filled with glow worms at night and birds and the river and moss that looked like snow and a million bridges and amazing waterfalls and giant trees that were hollow. so plenty of photo opportunities! :) but there was a waterfall at the end of one of the tracks and we decided it was a good idea to go swimming in it. as soon as you touched the water you were frozen and could no longer feel that part of your body.... Spanko said it was like someone was hitting you with a bag of frozen peas.... but there was also this huge amount of foam built up from the water fall and I decided again it was a good idea to make stupid hairdos with it. Not realising until after that I/we would now have to dunk right under in this hypothermic water.... was very fun tho!
Also we have had three weeks off for Polytech to do Self Directed Learning...... its pretty much time where we are super lazy but try hard to kayak and climb or do somthing productive each day. It started off good with some kayaking and climbing and then the second week was pretty slow, but then I had a week of work experience at Bivouac (outdoor shop), I loved it!!! got to label everything!! haha was fun adn teh people there were cool too :) fun to work with haha
So now we are back to a normal ish routine but we have exams starting next week... but should be alguds hopefully.
OH!!!!!! the best thing happend also in these last two weeks. Jake my sailing friend and his Dad invited me to join them on a boat to sail from the Whitsunday Islands to Cairns in Australia!!!! and I was getting so damn exxcited!!! So we booked flights and made arrangements and now I'm going with them. and i Cant wait!!! It'll be so awesome just being on a boat for two weeks and being somewhere warm and amazing and with awesome people. Only five weeks till we go!
So I shall stop blabbing now and hopefully update you soon on the boringness of my life :)
Peace out till next time! xx

Been away tramping all week and am now so tired!! Went to the Takitimu Ranges in Fiordland near Milford Sound, NZ. was very nice there we were mostly off track so got to see the greeness of teh trees and moss a lot more!! Had a lot of fun and laughed a lot at my friends expense, with her falling over all the time and being "beached as" on her pack, falling thigh deep into mud and just general stupidness. We found that when you are tired and hungry at teh end of the day as soon as someone makes a pathetic  giggle at nothing, you then go into hysterical laughter over absolutely nothing!! But that is whats good, when you can just laugh for the hell of it. everyone kept saying how can you be so happy  without being high, and I dont know there doesnt have to be a reason to be happy, cant a person just be happy just for the sake of being happy. So I've decided im a happy person and also very good at hiding behind my smile :) gtg rock climbing today!! peace out nomies xx

Goodbyes are not forever

so to as my title, its because there are so many amazing people in my life that i meet and greet or meet and get to know really well but before long they have to go back to where they came from, or leave the place taht they love. just the other day i watched teh person Im missing the most right now drive away. Im not good with goodbyes because when someone that i really care about or think is absolutely amazing leaves, it takes a part of me with them, so im full of missing pieces right now but thats only because these people have made big impressions on me, some more than others.
It may have been one of the sweetest but toughest goodbyes. Having that special person hug me and wipe my tears from my face was heartwarming. that last kiss goodbye, the last hug goodbye, the last wave. The last look as he drove down that road, was hard but i know that it wont be the last goodbye, because we will see eachother one day again, definitely. So hence my title "goodbyes are not forever", that is the truth if you want it to be, its more of a cya later :) and in life all the small things, all the little things at the time dont seem significant, but in the end you realise all the little things made up the big things. Enjoy the little things in life , because on day you will look back and realise they were the big things.
So i want to thank you Seb for being you.

KAK

this is a special tribute to some of my lovely lovely peeps who absolutely love tramping and possibly couldnt think of anything else better to do :p tricksies!! love you two sorry kirstie but Kirsten goes first cos she is the specialist.
Here are two people I spend nearly everyday with :)
KIRSTEN!!!!!!

 KAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our amazing tent poles :) love you guys

from the begginning

so ive just been searching through heaps of peoples pages and so many are different yet the same, i should of started this at the start of the year just cos so many things have happened and now is an odd time for me to start spilling, so ill recap now ...
at the start of the year (summer) i was fruitpicking at the orchard and this year there were a bunch of new ppl as well as some of the usuals, the people that travel are so amazing and im always jelous of them because they have seen so much more of the world than me, but i will get my turn JULY 2014!!!!!and i cant wait!!!!
 there were the french Sebastien :) and Ben who travelled together, Sasa and Tanja from Slovakia, Emilie (Canada) and Moto (Japan), those two were teh coolest craziest people ive ever met and im glad i got to share my summer with all of them and hopefully i will see them again one day. atm Seb is in my hometown but he leaves soon which is sad, he is a beautiful person.

my buddys on the course and me climbing (being lazy and toproping) woot.  So after the summer I started my Outdoor leadership and management course at Polytech, it involves a lot of white water kayaking, rock climbing (sport climbing), and tramping with sea kayaking in there too! everytime i climb or kayak i pretty much scare the crap outer myself, so as you can imagine i need to gain some good confidence and headspace, because i love doing it just gotta be happy about what im doing lol while kayaking in wanaka for the week i always sang to myself and Luke, one of the year twos caught me singing buffalo soldier and rocking my kayak side to side at the same time. I also talk a lot of crap when im nervous so everyone just laughed at me all week, but i didnt mind cos it happens all the time anyway haha atm im on holiday till the end of the week from my course so busy cof cof doing assignments cof cof.....

ive been trying to catch up with my friends because my course pretty much takes them away from me but i hung wiht my bestie Alex today and we played soccer so i was super happy!!! and i miss my sports especially soccer and sailing but thats ok ill get them sometime soon :) but until then peace out xoxo

ive decided things can change quickly... like last minute decisions, friendships etc i dunno how to explain just that its very interesting.

life as we know it

so this is the first blog from me, i was firstly inspired by this girl who did something new everyday and blogged about it and i wanted to do the same, but to be honest i have no money to do something different everyday and i couldnt think of 365 new different things!!! My mind is simple ish. I had been looking for somewhere to blog because some of my friends had one from their travels around the world, so finally because of kaka my friend I now have this blog!!!
This isnt a very exciting first blog but i dont mind because i will fill it up with goodness soon :) so many stories and quotes to share with everyone. so hopefully whoever feels like reading this will enjoy the crazy, silly life i may lead, but im happy so i dont mind what you think! as such :) enjoy <3