Regular Updates - well every 3 months!!!

Looking South towards Makara beach - yes Simon we have dived this spot before!!!

Sunset on Waverley beach

Must be beer o' clock :o)

Seems like only yesterday that I was swearing that I'd update this blog more regularly and yet here we are getting into Autumn with little or no progress - ok no progress. So here's a brief summary of the last few weeks. If I went back any further I have to cover such wierdness as the World Unicycle Championships and other various wonders that Wellington has held over the summer - including some very entertaining footie matches with 38,000 turning out at the Cake Tin to see the Phoenix play their hearts out. It was like watching football from the 80's and it took days for my voice to recover!

Been lucky enough to have the last few days off, so we went to a place called Waverley on the west coast of the North Island and enjoyed bach life for Easter. Then it was back to Wellington, to the surprise that Wolves hadn't been relegated and the not so much of a surprise that the 'Toon were back in the Premiership - hoping to see them in Molineux next season.

Even the dog has noticed the cooler evenings

We've had one of those weird Wellington weekends - no wind on Saturday and roaring Northerlies on Sunday, but managed to get out diving on both days. There was a run of southerlies last week so the water has dropped to 12C, so man was I glad to see my dry-suit come back from the repair shop - woohoo!!

Have to mention, we went for a dive in a place called Makara As you can see it's not really close to anywhere much. but we went to help a guy shift his boat and he only turned out to be from Coney Island, Sligo - you really can't go anywhere in the world without bumping into a local. Maz, if you're reading this, he was a regular at Austies!!

On Sunday, we headed out into the Taputeranga Marine Reserve (Island Bay, Wellington), and here is a little video to show what happens if we stop fishing an area for a little over 14 months ...



Just after this, my dive buddy Helen found an octopus who took a liking to her. I managed to take some video once I'd stopped laughing :o)



For anyone out there who is a Tommy Tiernan fan or hasn't heard of him but would like to know what would happen if you let a lunatic have 3 hours a week to make a real radio programme, with comments that would make the BBC blush - have a look at Tommy & Hector, either stream or podcast - technology is a wonderful thing and I love scaring the locals, inanely grinning to their mad antics.


Now all I need is for Wolves to get the 3 points in the Stoke v Wolves match (sorry Kevin) and the weekend will be made - singing 'Hi, ho Wolverhampton!"


There always has to be a Nudi shot ...