Sealions

…this big lad at the pilot’s wharf on the Aramoana spit…

..and this “lovely” female in my good friend Dee’s Roses…

…(top left, below the purple flowers)….

….(outside toilet left in shot for scale)….

…awwww….she’s sleeping…

…no she’s not…

…crap…flight or photo…

 

…the thing with female sealions is that, unlike the males who will challenge, charge,  then stand their ground, the females will follow you for some distance….

 

…like, right to the back door….

…maybe we’ll hold off admiring the roses till next week.

To Cat Or Not To Cat

…that is the question…that Gareth Morgan is asking of us….

 

….Gareth Morgan can be found here…

http://garethsworld.com/catstogo/

…he’s got a point, but maybe could’ve been a little more subtle…

… A. Kittys’ got his number.

Feastock 2014 Ate My Homework

…after selling all the tickets of Feastock 2014…

 

…I attended…

 

…Seedy had chewed his nails so far down that he had to switch to pineapple lumps…

 

..Crispy appeared to be filming blind…

 

…and Callum was behind the stacks practicing his “thank-yous” announcement…

 

…well practiced he was, thanking Too Tone 3 times in the course of his speech….(did I make too much fuss about being left out last year?)….

…to shorten the toilet queues, security were directing the lads to this oasis of alternative utrination…

 

 

…mmmm….sulubrious….

…you guys might want to not encourage that next year…the puddle was getting hard to negotiate (with) by the end of the event…

 

 

 

…and don’t tell any one how shitfaced, Dee and AJ were….

 

 

…as per-ususal my Feastock ends in a hazy red blur for another year.

…the authorities have all the photographic evidence, they know who you are.

 

…(it is taking ages too get over the excesses of saturday..normal transmission may never be resumed).

Camouflage On The Beach

…last weekend was a bumper critter-watch weekend…

…as if seeing that huge pod of dolphins (& not seeing a whale) wasn’t enough…

…My good friend Dee and I had the pleasure of meeting this lovely lass…

…pretty sure she’s a sea lion but we’ve, neither of us, seen one this white before…

…absolutely gorgeous…

…but a little blurry ‘cos I don’t think she’s had much to do with humans and was very fidgety, even with us keeping to a very polite distance, so I was taking more notice of my escape route than keeping an eye on focus!!…

…those be pointy teeth!

…she was gone in a fairly short amount of time, again the lack of human “contact” may have been a major factor…and being Easter there was a lot more folk about than her beach-stay guide book may have indicated.