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4 from the same name

Robin and I drove to Christchurch this past thursday to celebrate my mothers 70th birthday. Being that Sunday is a work day for Robin we drove down thurs and came back LATE Saturday night. Its about 4hours down to my parents place. We had… Continue Reading “4 from the same name”

A different place

      Well made it back from the race on Saturday through the Molesworth Farm. What an amazing place and landscape. Very wild & raw and untouched. The weather was brilliant which is great consider it can snow in there even in the… Continue Reading “A different place”

Keep Your Eyes on the…

Tomorrow i am running in a 4 person team relay through NZ’s biggest ‘farm’ the 500,000 acre Molesworth Station. Each of us will run about 22Km. the only road through is very remote and un-developed. What i am looking forward to the most is… Continue Reading “Keep Your Eyes on the…”

Back & writing

Yup, i’m back and writing will be writing more. Feel like have come out of the winter both literally and figuratively down here in NZ. Yesterday reached 84F which is really hot for here, but the joy of living in an island nation way… Continue Reading “Back & writing”

Cora’s Response

I know this isn’t funny all the shakin we are having but even Cora is a little freaked out HOWEVER she is practicing safe earthquake procedures.

Shakin again

We have had multiple 5.5 plus quakes in the past 30mins even a 6.9 yikes.

A wee bit closer

While we still continue to have small aftershocks it appears to be returning to normal. A report was released today announcing (that said we just had a 4.0 as i type this post) anyways as i was saying a report released today announced that… Continue Reading “A wee bit closer”

Here’s what we got

Here is a screen shot of the past few hours. Blenheim, while not listed is essentially where Grovetown is.

Stealing all the limelight

Perhaps you have seen some reports about the quakes down here, and from what we have seen its mostly been centered around Wellington, our capital. Well time for the little guy to fight back. The epicenter of the quakes was a lot closer to… Continue Reading “Stealing all the limelight”

About to go & try sleeping

Its time to go to bed here. Not sure what that will look like tonight. In the past 1hour there has been about 27 quakes on the fault that we are nearest. Many are small and we don’t feel, others we certainly do. If… Continue Reading “About to go & try sleeping”