Kiwi Bob's Bright weekend

Kiwi Bob's falls shots

Kiwi Bob's Hotham shots

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Bungalow Spur, Feathertop, Hotham

My Razorback shots
Sarah's fb shots
Alex's fb shots


Photo courtesy of Helen's collection

Here is Grover's vid:

Photo courtesy of Hania's collection:

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Epic weekend
buxton saturday with buxton burger

buller sunday thanks pete for drivin the healesville to mtn leg

pic courtesey of petes collection
lots of driving but heaps of fun

joff and dons japan 2011

Order taxi for 4:30 am. At 4:45 we wake up murph, load up X-trail and race along ring road to try to beat the jetstar baggage cut off time.

Click here for Clare's FB shots.

NZ Nth

Spent the week boarding on Mt Ruapehu(see above).
Great house in Ohakune with fireplace and spa also hired pimping 4WD.
Click the volcano for Chrissy's fb pics
and below for Rob's

NZ3

Our anunual Queenstown trip murph and big dogs photos shortly.

Rach's shindig in the snow

Top work Rach for teeing this up and letting me crash on the floor. Thanks heaps for Pete and Chrissy for driving and food. Click above for pics from the day

The Surgeons NZ2

Al, Surge, Murph and I hit NZ again for our annual boarding adventure and this time we brought the Joff along. Click image above for some of my faves from murphs collection.

Hareys Hotham assault

Top work Jeffrey for an action packed perfectly planned and executed weekend of snowboarding fun at hotham. Thanks heaps to kiwi bobs mate jason for all the driving (and putting up with a tarago chockabloc full of drunken boarders (plus a stray skier) on the way up). Perfect weather and great company.
Click above for a few drunken wrestling photos (seems to be a bit of a tradition when drinkin beers with jeff and kiwi bob)

Papa Murphs NZ Experience

Most of the Gold Coast lads(Coach, Haynes, AlDesira and myself) as well as Coltaire, Sergay and Conradical jumped on a super cheap flight to Christchurch. We hired a car and drove to Queenstown.

To see what we got up to that first night see the relevant Jim Bobs Bit

On the way there an eagle (bogged down by the animal it had in its talons) nearly crashed through the windscreen. At the last minute Murph swerved out of the way saving Haynesie from a Fabio-like bird in the face.

The drive there was really amazing. As tired and hung over as I was (from all the duty free grog consumed the night before) I just couldn’t close my eyes for the entire drive that’s how beautiful the scenery was.

Need more detail see what Coach SeZ on the matter.

Queenstown is fantastic. Adventure all day and party all night.

Click a photo to go to rest from that set or select it from my flickr map

The focus was definitely boarding. We went to the Remarkables twice and Coronet peak once.

Dont belive me? Lets see if this will be Murph Busted!




Video of StevieD boarding on the first day.
Video of Coltaire boarding on the first day.
Will post a video of Jimmy boarding on the first day here.

On the day off we went jet boating,



And caught a gondola to the top of this peak where there was road lugeing.

Here is a video of StevieD road luger (please note the awesome camera work by yours truly)

Here is a video of the road lugeoff between Conradical and Sergay.

Here is Papa Murph's version of events.

The morning before the planned drive back to Christchurch we snuck in a paraglide off Coronet Peak.

Keep checking Murphs Show and Tell for the detailed trip report as it becomes available. Ill endeavour to link to it from here also.

I really must go back for a longer session of snowboarding and perhaps a summertime NZ campervan trip with NYE in Queenstown. Top work Coach Murphy for working out all the details and getting such an awesome deal.

Almost forgot the obligatory "Tom with chick" photo courtesy of murph's collection:

Next trip Canada, X-Stream! *

*This catchphrase is said and acted out by Extreme Cameraman Wally Symons from the cult NZ TV series Back of the Y.