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Published: December 26th 2010
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Thanks all - the experiment is complete. The phone is behaving itself again at the moment but I don't hold out much hope for how long that will remain the case.
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Slow day today. Tendons, muscles, and perhaps even mind feeling somewhat stretched so rise carefully with some gentle warming up exercises to ensure no muscles are about to ping themselves out of place. Wander into town for breakfast on the wharf watching the clouds build inconclusively above the mountains. Pop in to the DOC office on the way back to read the latest "SEVERE weather warning". Apparently we should expect 200mm of rainfall in the next 24-48 hours.
I wander back out into the warm sunshine with the words of the Kiwi who was wondering whether to join his friend on the Hollyford track playing in my mind: "The track might be alright but the lake rises 6 metres when you get that kind of rain - I'll radio him to say I'm staying on my couch - don't fancy spending a night on the roof of the hut."
I study the skies as I walk and decide perhaps I should go out and do
South Island Farming
obviously one needs some hay but how could one survive without a wee plane? a wee walk today after all just in case tomorrow is a complete washout. Funny thing is, the Mt Alfred ascent I plan for tomorrow will not be affected by rain - it may be wet, but there are no creeks or lakes in the way. Despite that, I decide I can survive till tomorrow before doing any washing so I drive out to Moke Lake in case I fancy a march round there. Far too many holiday-ing families around there so I duck back out and drive along to Glenorchy.
I'm turned back from two road-ends (Rees and Greenstone) by fords that the wee hire car just about trundles through ok at the moment but won't if they were to rise much (as they are due to). So I drive back towards Queenstown, the clouds turning darker all around me, and stop at the bottom of the Lake Dispute track. This'll be fine whatever so I pull the boots on and march up to the lake. Quite a dull walk really so I get to the head of the lake in just under an hour then decide that's enough.
Back to town, organise things for an early
start up Mt Alfred tomorrow morning and down to the wharf to watch England rub salt into Australia's wounds - such a strange feeling to be watching England dominate an ashes test (so far) at the MCG. When I was there four years ago, we'd already lost the series and the only thing that happened on this day was a bunch of aussies broke a bunch of records. There are a fair amount of aussies in the bar and they're all looking quite sheepish at the mo. Long may it last ;-)
The rain still hasn't arrived.
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Rob
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AN AEROPLANE
That's it, I'm convinced... farming by aeroplane seems a pretty good idea to me... Just booking my ticket...