Holiday!

I'm having a fabulous time with Kristi. This last week we spent in the Catlins...hiking to waterfalls and walking many beaches. The weather was beautiful! Then we headed to central Otago, went to a bird sanctuary and saw kiwis! And stayed in Wanaka. We woke up to lots of snow all over southern NZ! The pass to Mt Cook was closed so we drove through central, stopped at one of my fav vineyards (Black Ridge), went to St Bathans and Blue Lake and to Moeraki Boulders. We mostly cooked at our backpackers or fixed lunch on the road, but we did have to fabulous seafood dinners! Today I had a symposium and gave a talk on my master's research. Tomorrow we were supposed to go cod fishing but it has been cancelled due to sea conditions...sooooooooo disappointing! Instead we are collecting fish for my research and going to Sand Fly bay to watch the penguins come in in the evening. Then we plan to head off again on Sunday...hopefully for Doubtful Sound for a couple of days.