60th Wedding Anniversary

It was Nana and Grandad's 60th wedding anniversary at the end of April and this was the main reason I headed home. Here are some pictures of the proceedings.

Not quite NZ

Quite clearly was made in china by someone who was unsure of the difference between Australia and NZ.

Anzac day

I spent Anzac day in Raglan with the family.


Grandad and Nana


Joshua

Adelle's fishy

An undersized snapper, courtesy of Raglan harbour. It was released soon after.

Shrooms

There is a lot of fungus in the Nelson Lakes national park.


Giant shroom


Red shroom

St Arnaud range

We had a few days spare in St Arnaud after the tramp so I went for a day walk up the St Arnaud range.

Travers Sabine

Well a few weeks ago Adelle and I did the Travers Sabine walk in Nelson Lakes NZ.
It is a reasonably straight forward tramp that gets above the bushline in a few places and takes anything from 5 to 8 days, we did it leisurely in 7 with a nice side trip to blue lake.
The weather was very warm for the time of year but not too crowded with no more than one or two other people at the huts.
The next tramp might have to be a traverse of the princess range if I can find someone to come along although it wouldn't be too bad a solo walk.


Near lakehead hut at the start of the walk.


A friendly South Island robin, they were rather plentiful along the track, which was nice to see.


Hmmmm


Swing bridge


John tait hut


Travers falls


Nothofagus






Upper Travers hut




Vegetable sheep


Travers saddle




Bad for the knees.


Avalanche


Blue lake


Blu lake hut










Just as it was taking off.


Speargrass hut




Nearing the end.

Fantail

The fantails were very friendly on the Travers Sabine track.

Linux

Well about a year ago I installed Ubuntu on my computer, first as a dual boot system then later I wiped the hard drive and installed it as my only OS.
It has worked really well and would be suitable for pretty much anyone with no special computer skills needed as everything (that an average user would need) can be run through GUI's. I did have a couple of issues with the dual boot set up but that was mainly due to microsoft overwriting the bootloader GRUB when I didn't want it to. So I would recommend giving it a go if for no other reason than trying the 72 different versions of solitaire it comes with.