: About Me

I am an Authentic Male Kiwi, born and residing in New Zealand. The kiwi is a flightless bird (no wings), with a big beak. Can you imagine going through the forest scattering leaves and digging for worms with only your nose and no hands to help you! You'd have to have a bloody good sense of humor!

My passion is ...

Wine, woman and song

I know too much about ...

painting fences

My parents always told me ...

don't pass your food up through your mat!

My childhood ambition ...

Cowboys and Indians forever

My favorite memory ...

not losing control of my tricycle and cutting a path through a stand of my mothers rose bushes!

Why I write ...

I have to work to pay the mortgage. I can write because I want to. Even if I am a shocking speller.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The NZ Herald (daily)/my sons soccer (Saturdays)/my daughter practising her speech for the 100th time

My first job ...

"Good afternoon, I'm collecting for the needy widows, widowers, pensioners and families...do you have any old rags, clothes or shoes or toys...that I can give to these" Yes I was your door knocking rag man( age 15 years old)!

My best moment ...

Experiencing mountain oysters - cooked over a raging hot fire on the coldest night possible, Central Otago, New Zealand. Gulping back a glass of Pinot Noir at the same time!

My inspiration ...

Sir Edmund Hillary

Sports & Recreation > Fly Fishing Casting with a strong wind behind you

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Come to New Zealand and find out what is like to cast in strong wind conditions. Picture this...beautiful morning, still as a mill pond, the river has an oily flow as it meanders its way over the rocks and eddies into deep pockets at the side of the bank. Midges bounce uninhibited across the river surface, settling and wriggling as they run out of steam, quickly gulped by a flash of silver in one quick ripple of movement. The water is so clear, you can see the rainbows (trout) suspended motionless behind the rocks, waiting for the midges to land, and sifting the stream with their mouths ga...

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