Hi everyone:-)
It has been a busy week and i have had a blast.
I went on a really cool day Helihike. This is a photo i took from the helicopter on the way up. It looks a little funny cos of the reflection of the window glass.
This is the view from the heli pad up on the ice. It is fun being on heli's cos you are never really out on bad days. If the weather is shitty they don't fly. If you are doing helis then you meet the clients at our base at 9am. we drive them down to the helipad. Once we get there we get them into boots and give them a safty briefing. Don't walk into the tail rotor, don't touch the levers between the pilots seat and the front seat. Once they are all set then we load them inot the choppers. The flight up to the ice is about 5-10mins. once we are up on the ice we divide them into smaller groups and blast around looking for fun stuff trying to chop as few and as small a steps as possible. On a clear and busy day we could stay on the ice from 9am till 630 pm.
Last weekend was a blast too. Andrew came over from ChCh to go ice climbing. He was arriving sometime latish on friday night so i decided to go for a quick hunt after work. It was a nice evening and all was going well until I shot a big 10 point stag just as it was starting to get dark. by the time i had cleaned it up and decided it was way too heavy to carry out it was dark. i got home at about 11pm to find andrew had been waiting for a while. I had to wake up early and go back to where i had left the deer hanging in a tree to pack out as much meat as i could. Got back home about midday and was feeling shagged but then went ice climbing with andrew. On Sunday we went out to the beach. These are some of the photos i took .
this is the lagoon at the beach
looking nth from the end of the beach
old miners tunnel near the beach.
On our way back from the beach we got stopped by a dutch couple who had a flat battery. they had parked their camper van about 1km sth along the sand track on the beach. It was an auto and we did not have jumper leads so i towed them back to the main beach road. lots of fun almost got stuck in the soft sand.
Sunday afternoon we went ice climbing again and when we got back to the car at dusk, we found this little darling trying to pull bits off my car.
This is the view from the heli pad up on the ice. It is fun being on heli's cos you are never really out on bad days. If the weather is shitty they don't fly. If you are doing helis then you meet the clients at our base at 9am. we drive them down to the helipad. Once we get there we get them into boots and give them a safty briefing. Don't walk into the tail rotor, don't touch the levers between the pilots seat and the front seat. Once they are all set then we load them inot the choppers. The flight up to the ice is about 5-10mins. once we are up on the ice we divide them into smaller groups and blast around looking for fun stuff trying to chop as few and as small a steps as possible. On a clear and busy day we could stay on the ice from 9am till 630 pm.
