Monday, December 8, 2008

A Night on Long Beach




This is the home of the best climbing in the Dunedin area.  The little cave with the three entrances that we camped in is called Cathedral Cave and has some cool bouldering routes.  Further down the beach is where they do sport climbing (our gear will arrive with our parents so we can climb a little in January).  The big cave I'm standing in is the home of what must be some pretty wicked Guy Fawkes bon fires/parties.  You can see how the roof of the cave has been painted black with the years of smoke.  This was Mae's first day off since we went to Te Anau nearly three weeks ago.  It was really good for us to get out, even if it did start raining in the middle of the night and through the next day.  That wasn't so surprising though as all of my days off for the past month have been cold and rainy.  Sorry the blog has become so boring, hopefully the pictures make up for the less than inspiring writing.  Not much new has been happening since our last post, just more work.  However, I am undergoing two major changes at the current moment.  I, for the first time in nearly 25 years, have a great desire to be drinking coffee and eating soup pretty much all the time.  I don't know what did it but there are two more down.  I'm sorry to say that I don't love seafood yet, but the other night Mae made some Hoffman/Chugwater chili littered with beans and I loved it as well.  Suffice it to say that we are turning over some new leaves here in New Zealand and are still so happy to be here, even if we do miss the sun we grew so accustomed to back home.  That's all for now.
Cheers,
Johnny