S'n M

S'n M is what I decided to call this road trip after Sebbe and Mike who were with me. It was heaps of fun!

On their arrival, a friend of mine who works for Weta Digital help me pick them up from the airport and then we went to where he works and showed us the massive Nasgul and Wraith that Peter Jackson had installed there. Pretty bad ass.

Once we got to the hostel, checked them in, and then my mission began: Operation Piss Up!

The title says it all I would think. Yeah, won't go into too much detail, but I completed my mission!

The following day we just hung out in Wellington and showed them around and did the real touristy stuff.

On Monday we got on the ferry and went down to the south island. This trip to the south island was excellent! I didn't have to do all the driving! So I could finally sit back and enjoy the scenery! Woohoo!

We went to Nelson - Franz Josef - Wanaka - Queenstown - Manapouri - Milford Sound - Catlins - Dunedin - Christchurch.

This is more or less the same route that I did with the German girl I met in Nelson, but then I did it in the summer whereas it's winter here now, so everything looked a tad bit different, if not better!

I was meant to do a sky dive in Queenstown, but the weather was just crap, so I had to cancel it, mega boohoo!!!

The only way I can really sum up the trip is with the word awesomeness!


What's happening now? Start working again and prepare myself for the Disturbed concert in September! And guess who else is going to be playing P.O.D. Yes, Herk (my brother) I am going to see P.O.D. live :D

Mega fast!

New Photo's under S'n'M

You should be able to find them! See'ya!

Longer blog will be posted ASAP!

Awesomeness + Badosch = Today

I went to the Botanical Gardens the other day with some people from my hostel and it was very nice! Super chill and amazing weather. Got some nice shots, and had some good carrot cake. However, was sooooo (if I wanted to use all the appropriate o's you'd need another 2 days to read it out) sweet! I didn't work today because yesterday was my last day on assignment at the construction site, so I decided to take the day off and think things through. As usual, that didn't happen, instead, something much much cooler happened. I thought I'd find a spot outside to do some thinking, and I was asking some people around the hostel where to go, and one of the managers told me to go to Owhiro Bay and check out the seal colony there. And with the weather being so amazing, I thought that'd be a really good idea. So, I just took what I had with me, a dead iPod, almost empty phone, book, 2x apples, water, Bombay mix, camera, and 1x 2GB memory. I was ready to go. I thought I go to the internet cafe and charge up my iPod and write some in my blog before I left, I waited outside of the cafe for a couple of minutes thinking they would open soon, but they didn't. I checked out another one, but it was a bit more expensive, and thought to hell with it, I don't need my iPod. I call the bus service and asked them how to get to Owhiro Bay, they give some directions, and I follow them. Like, a hour before the times they gave me. But whatever, it was a great day. I jump on the first bus and jump off where I have to and find out that the next bus isn't for another hour. I ask a local for some directions and he just tells me to follow a road straight along, so I follow it. I walked for maybe 30 minutes when I stumbled across something pretty awesome: a wrought iron art gallery. It was freakin' amazing! I met one of the owners who showed me the indoors or one of their studios, and it was just collection of random stuff, and I mean random! Just check out the photos. It's a must see if you have time. The coolest thing about that room was that the ceiling was covered with old vinyl records - so cool! And the iron art was pretty bad ass too! After spending about 20-30 minutes there taking photos and appreciating the art, I make my way towards the beach, I get there about 20 minutes later. It was so frikkin' nice to see the sea again in a small town environment, and to celebrate, I bought some ice cream (in the sun, I could wear a t-shirt and shorts) :D

I then find the beach and start walking towards the colony, and the beach was so beautiful. As is everything here in NZ. After walking for maybe 10 minutes, I see a rock sticking out of the water and tell myself that I had to climb it, so I did and I got the feeling I got when I first arrived to NZ again, it was amazing. Better than the feeling of love in my opinion. Yeah man, speechless.

I climb down and start making my way again, and I see a hardcore 4x4 LandRover with it's roof down and all black coming up behind me. Two people are in it, about my age, and I start to think "I want to ride in that bad ass!" I hesitate, but then I lift up my thumb. They stop and look at each while driving past, but brake 5 meters ahead of me. My spirit is as high as a kite this point. It was photography student with her friend who were out on a mission to take some photos for her course. Awesome, someone to get some info about my camera. I didn't ask her everything, just white balance questions, and I got my answer: light gray.

We got over a hill and then we saw HEAPS of seals, and I mean HEEEAAAAPS!!! There must of been at least 50-60 of them there on the rocks. And boy did it smell like CRAP! But the cuteness of the seals made up for it.

After hanging out with them we drove a bit further down the beach to a little bay where she gets into a wet suit and jumps in the water. Theme: looking sporty. It was random. After that was all done, we drove a bit further along the beach towards the seal colony, but it was ages away. So we just turned around and headed back into town. And guess what, I got to drive the Land Rover! It was amazing! Now I REALLY want one! The stuff he drove through was pretty intense, something TM (haven't seen that for a while, eh?) wouldn't of have handled, that's for damn sure!

We exchanged phone numbers and emails and hopefully I'll be meeting them again some time, cause they were some cool as people!

Hate to hurry off the blog like this, I'm going to meet a friend for pool and didn't want leave this blog for another day.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy! Unsorted