This is how we left Sutherland house in Nov 2016

to protect against Tropical Cyclones

We cover everything with Plastic

The Temp is in low 30's every day 

Monday we had 34.7 degs

we had a big clean ups on Monday 

we only have 1 fan left as 2 other fans 

decided to not run this year 

A must do for the team from the Pacific Islands

Experience the cool temp of Antarctic 

Melten did experience -20 deg chill factor after 

first feeling what -8 deg felt like !!

We went to the storm room in the Antarctic centre in ChCh

to feel what a blizzard felt like. 

The youth from Port Vila haver arrive

We took the youth to gardens in Christchurch city

Here is Phil King from Global Mission showing the team around

Here is Melten the finance man for the Disaster Account

Thanks John for the new drill chargers 

these will make the 4 drills in Vila all workable again.

We blow up 2 charges while doing the Onesua Project

We are starting to prepare for our return to Port Vila

but first we must go to Christchurch and receive the 

Youth group from Vanuatu and make sure they are settled in

and also see them return to Vanuatu after a weeks training.

The high winds blow over our fence 

a wee bit of work to do now

We went to Picton to watch the Marine time fest

but the rain was too heavy and it was cancelled 

We went to see the sights of Picton before returning home

Not a good day to go to the beach 

an unsettled weather period thru summer

We went site seeing around Bali

It looks a wee bite dangerous for me

Aleisha & Gloria passing over an old marble bridge

Neville & Gloria washing at a Bali bath

I wish we hadn't come this way now

Gloria is on the narrow path !!

We are out having a Elephant ride 

in Bali 

Our transport is a lot slower than the Quad bike

Here is Anna & Aleisha on their Elephant

after your ride you get to let the Elephant cool off

Getting on & off is easy 

a ladies are baby sitting

In Kalgoorlie they have the Super Pit

an open gold mine

Everything is big at the super pit

The truck tyres are huge

here is one of the dump trucks 

collecting to earth 

Here is the sequence of holes 

drilled for blasting 

This is a photo of the Pit

The dump trucks line up to get loaded 

by the digger

We had a 4 hour drive to Esperence 

to a wonderful beach 

Aleisha & Anna enjoying each others company

Its selfie time for the girls

At Christchurch airport an early start to fly to Kalgoorlie Western Australia

to see our daughter for Christmas

a 3 hour stopover in Melbourne 

a change in airlines from Air NZ to Virgin 

Anna & Gloria 

I may have found my retirement job

at Melbourne airport 

GO - STOP crossing man 

 Its Christmas 

Merry Christmas to you all 

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After returning from Port Vila

Vila, we have completed our

Medical check up and ready for

Our travel to Australia and have Christmas

With our daughters

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As we age we sometimes come across signs

Which are true!!!