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Fox Glacier to Wellington…

Day 6. The weather in Fox Glacier wasn’t good enough for a helicopter trip, so I started early for the ferry back to the north island. It’s a pretty long drive, so I thought I might struggle to make the last ferry, but as it was I managed to get there in plenty of time. [...]

Dunedin to Fox Glacier…

Day 5. Today started out with a trip over to Dunedin Hospital to see some of the guys I met at the NZOUG conference in Rotorua. Tim Cleminson had invited me along to have an informal chat with the team about all things Oracle. Anyone who has met me knows once I get started I [...]

Invercargill and Dunedin…

Day 4 was going to be a quick drive to Invercargill, then on to Dunedin. Instead I took the long route.
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Google says about 8 hours 40 minutes, which was about right, with a couple of diversions. I’m glad I added the extra miles because it’s a really cool route.
It’s Labour Day today, so [...]

Milford Sound and Arrowtown…

I got on a Fly-Cruise-Fly trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound this morning. It started off with a flight to Milford Sound in this little plane.

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Then a cruise on Milford Sound.

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We then flew back to Queenstown.
Later on I went to check out Arrowtown.
If you want to see the photos of the flights, Milford [...]

Tauranga, Auckland and down to Wellington…

I left Rotorua and drove to Auckland via Tauranga where I met an old work buddy (Antony). We had a walk along the boardwalk to check out the beach, then walked round Mount Wanganui. That gave us enough time to do the nostalgia bit before we headed back to his place so I could meet [...]

NZOUG Day 1…

NZOUG Day 1 seemed to go pretty well. My talk went OK, and the guys from Quest gave me some more Toads to shoot out into the audience. In the evening we all went out for a Skyrides and Luge trip. The Luge rides were cool, but I nearly fell out at one point.
I managed [...]

Rotorua…

I’m currently at the Rotorua conference, so this will be a quick post. I had a quick look round yesterday.
Lake Rotorua.

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Mud Pool.

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Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake).

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Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake).

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Lake Tarawera…

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Are you spotting a pattern? Lots of water and lots of green.

Lazy Days…

I’ve done almost nothing since arriving in New Zealand. I’m staying with friends and I’ve managed to busy myself chatting and playing with their 7 month old baby. She has a cold so I’ve been used as a human tissue and yesterday I got covered in projectile vomit. My arm, shirt and foot got a [...]

Air New Zealand individual on-demand system uses Linux…

I was part way through watching The Incredible Hulk on the flight to New Zealand when my Individual On-Demand System crashed and restarted. I watched with geeky pleasure as Linux booted up. I couldn’t tell the exact version, it went too quick, but I saw “Red Hat” in the text and there was a picture [...]

Gold Coast Update…

My last post might have left people with a negative view of the Gold Coast, so I hope this post goes some what to change that. Here is the view from my window.

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Here’s a view up the beach.

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Here’s a view down the beach.

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Pretty awesome…
Cheers
Tim…