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Davis’s at the crib

Holes at Toko Mouth

Here are my holes from the mid-late 1980’s … actually, they’re not meant to be holes, the adults just didn’t get it. What I was trying to do was to create a barrier of sand so big that I could sit on the beach and watch the waves crash around me. It never worked very […]

Twizel and Tekapo

From a family trip to Twizel and Lake Tekapo some time during the 80’s.

Hoar frost in Central Otago

A hoar frost in Central Otago some time in the 1980’s. I think this photo was taken in the hills behind Alexandra. That’s not snow you can see on the fence, that’s frozen ice, crystallised from the air … very cool 🙂

Harvey’s

Taken during the Harvey family trip to Toko Mouth during the 80’s.

The crib

Xmas Presents

QE2 park in Christchurch

Family trip to QE2 park in Christchurch some time in the 1980’s.

Orana Park

Family trip to Orana Park in Christchurch some time in the 1980’s.

Pine Tree at 4 Clermiston Ave

The neighbours gave my Dad permission to “trim some branches” from their pine tree while they were away for the day. My Dad took a rather liberal understanding of the term “trim”!

Mount Cook

Photos from a trip to Mount Cook during the 1980’s.

Manorburn dam

This is Dad and I on the Manorburn dam in 1990.

Mount Cargill Scouts

Yes I was a Cub Scout – don’t hold it against me :p This is us on a trip up Mount Cargill in Dunedin, New Zealand. This would have been some time in the 1980’s, not sure of the exact year though.

Grandma and Pop

May they rest in peace!

Fishing

This was the last time I went fishing. As you can see, the last time I went fishing was quite successful 🙂 I caught 17 fish in total. Unfortunately the adults ate all of my fish, I never got to have any 🙁

Avalanche boulder

This is a good lesson in why not to trust your elders! Dad and I saw this avalanche above the Hermitage at Mount Cook so we decided to go climb up on it and take some photos. Dad picked me up and dumped me on top of this giant snow ball. I said “Dad, I […]

Chess

Chess was a brief passion of mine in the early 1990s. At some point I lost interest; I’ll get into what happened to cause that in a later post. I picked it up again around 2019 and have been really enjoying it again. The following picture was taken of me during an interschool competition in […]

Mum and dad

Baby Santa

Me as a baby Santa. Photo taken some during the 80’s.

Gobo Fraggle

I think I received this for Xmas around 1987. I actually wanted Mokey, but she was a girl and mum said only strange boys would want a girl teddy bear, so then I asked for Wembley, but she said that Wembley was a bit of a loser and that I actually wanted Gobo. I was […]