Scenes of New Zealand – Hawkes Bay edition
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I headed south to finally meet up with a couple of guys that I’ve been planning to fish with for a long time now (one of them being Stu Hastie). It seems like either the weather or life always wants to intervene when we try to get together, and this time was no different. We had grand plans of a 3-day raft trip, but Mother Nature decided she had other ideas. We got to the put-in and were met with wind that would give Wyoming a run for its money accompanied by a hearty dose of rain. Instead of committing to 3 days of getting blown all over the river in the raft and risking getting into a hairy situation with rising water, we flagged the raft trip and improvised for a couple days.
We ultimately had a great time, hooked some fish, saw some beautiful water, and had plenty of laughs. My camera stayed safely in its dry bag for most of the trip, but here are a few scenes from along the way.
Beautiful water:
The locals watched our every move:
A strong contestant for the worst plant known to mankind:
In Sven’s own words, “extreme berry picking”:
Likely the only sign in the world that says this:
I was planning on shooting photos non-stop all weekend, but it ended up quite the opposite. However, Stu was nice enough to walk me through some of the photography that he’s been up to lately, field plenty of my photography questions, and let me test out some of his gadgets.
lamson should be on the phone shortly, that is most likely the coolest picture of a reel I have ever seen.
Looking good Tim!
Sorry things didn’t pan out the way we planned, but I believe that trip will be way better come November. Great to meet you finally, and I’m really looking forward to meeting up with you again later in the year. 🙂
A few of my shots from the weekend.
And a tank shot. It cleaned up nicely huh? 😉
Very nice guys! Looking forward to this weekend Tim and it looks like our weather is going to be nice for us as well! See you tomorrow night!
Joel
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