The New Zealand National Ice Hockey Championships are on in Dunedin at the moment. I’ll be videoing a few of the games to post on here. I’m not bothering to play as I object to the ~$200/game fee!
During the Christchurch Aardwolfs Southern Migration we stopped off at the Manorburn dam to see what the ice was like. We expected to see nothing but water, but a slither of ice on the bottom basin was enough to give our resident
ice expert Clive the hope to have a crack at skating on the top basin. So we trudged up the valley and had a gander at the ice up there. Apparently there was enough ice in the middle to skate on, but getting their proved a tad treacherous!
Ted had a decent crack at standing on the ice but kept dipping his foot into the water. He even clambered over a branch like a monkey to reach the ice further toward the center which looked skateable, but couldn’t quite make it far enough from the shore.
Here’s a panoramic photo I took of the Remarkables from the Queenstown ice rink.
And here’s a photo I took of Ted skimming a stone across Lake Wakatipu.
Here’s some photos I took of Mount Cook en route to Queenstown during the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club Southern Migration. Lake Pukaki can be seen in the foreground.
The brand new ice rink at Lake Tekapo is simply stunning! Gone with the old and in the new.
For more information about the new facility visit http://www.alpinesprings.co.nz/.
Here’s some photos I took of Lake Tekapo while on the Aardwolfs Southern Migration.
We visited the Fairlie ice rink during the Aardwolfs Southern Migration. Not a lot to see really, just a mud bog!
The Aardwolfs babes provided some amusement by strutting their stuff for the camera.
I was dressed in a Yellow Eyed Penguin suit as the mascot for the World Friendship Ice Hockey Games. There were teams from USA, Canada, Australia, Korea and New Zealand. The suit was ridiculously hot inside and skating became more of a sliding waddle 
The kids seemed to enjoy it though and none of them kicked me in the balls 
I wore a cup just in case though
The games were actually in May this year, but I didn’t get these photos till just now. Thanks for the photos Daria
I did a bunch of videos of our trip to the Manorburn dam recently. They aren’t very long and I don’t have any of myself unfortunately 
