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Anna, Harry and myself road-tripped from Dunedin to Alexandra to do a night skate on the Manorburn dam, then headed to Poolburn reservoir the next morning to skate on mega thick ice at Poolburn reservoir, then finished our journey by travelling through to Lake Tekapo for a hockey tournament between the Killer Keas (our team) and the Christchurch Rangers.

Harry on Poolburn reservoir

Harry and Anna at Lake Tekapo

Harry and Anna on Poolburn reservoir

Anna, Harry and Dave during a night skate on the Manorburn dam

Anna and Harry on Mt John, Lake Tekapo in the background

Anna and Harry heading towards the dam face at Poolburn reservoir

Anna during a stopover at Lawrence

Anna on Poolburn reservoir

Anna, Ryan Hellyer (me) and Harry. Unfortunately the flash didn't work too well with my reflectors.

Ryan Hellyer (me) and Anna struggling to keep our eyes open due the glare on Mt John. Lake Tekapo in the background.

The Killer Keas ice hockey team, bronze medalists in the Dunedin Ice Hockey League Autumn season.

Clockwise from top left: Ben Wallis, Edward Waite, David Richards, Peter Wallis, Ryan Hellyer, Bret Dougherty, Señorita León de la Barra, Elizabeth Roberts, Jaydee Cabral, Hernisha Fakir, Sonja Woods,

Thanks to Jaydee Cabral for providing the photo and Anna Craw for taking it.

The field hockey team I usually play for (The Soft Sticks) had no opposition at our last game. So they played a game amongst themselves while I took some piccies from the shade on the sideline – I’m still recovering from a dislocated shoulder. The temperatures were searing (26 deg. C I think) so there were some very hot looking pink hockey players by the end of their game.

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Our uber awesome, wonderful and truly incredible professional ice hockey coach Jenel Bode is leaving Hopefully she’ll be back next year though

Rhyan McMillan and our uber awesome coach Jenel Bode

For her goodbye bash, she organised a goodbye party in a cave at Longbeach. It sounded boring, getting stuck in a cave all evening on a cold, wet, rainy day Luckilly Sarah was heading out to take Jane so I hitched a ride along so I could make an appearance and bail home early with Sarah. Darn glad I went though, coz it was totally awesome. The cave was wicked, the fire kept us all cosy warm, everyone had fun and there was loads of entertainment provided by my teammates who provided firebreathing, guitar and flame throwing demonstrations for us all. There were even baby blue penguins in the back of the cave hanging out with us!

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The Beasts (my ice hockey team) headed to Stewarts Gully Mini Golf. The facility is owned by Clive Murphie, a top bloke who is also heavily involved with the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club who we played against in Christchurch. As it says on the label, this is “Mini Golf”, so basically big golf shrunk to a small size, no castles, water features or other fandangled things to navigate, just good old putting greens.

Clive Murphie, the owner of the course

Estelle Baker expertly sinking the ball in the hole after some advice from Jane Soper (on right). Conveniently I clicked the shutter just as the ball was falling into the hole.

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I’ve gotten a lot of questions about GimpCam and NetCam recently. To save me feeling like a broken record, here’s a selection of pre-prepared answers …

• Yes I did look like a gimp while wearing it
• No I’m not going to lend it to you to wear to school
• No it doesn’t have X-ray vision
• No I don’t use it to spy on girls in the changing room
• No I’m not going to lend it to you for that purpose!
• No I’m not going to buy a pinhole camera instead (too expensive)
• Yes GimpCam and NetCam have the same internals
• It cost $80 from a dodgy computer store in SE Calgary
• Yes NetCam is housed inside a tupperware container and no I’m not going to integrate it inside the goal post instead
• Yes GimpCam looks stupid and no it can’t fit inside the lip at the top of my helmet
• Yes I am considering allowing goalies to wear GimpCam but I need to find an appropriate way to protect it as its unlikely to survive a puck impact in it’s current form
• No I’m not planning to stream it direct to a projector screen in the warm room
• Last of all, NO! You are not allowed to fire slapshots at my head while I’m wearing GimpCam!

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I’m now famous! My rather crappy videos have made their way onto the What Now TV show. I received an email from them the other day asking if they could screen some of my videos of the recent New Zealand Ice Hockey National Championships on their show. Pity I didn’t know before hand as I’d have prepared some far better quality footage for them.

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What Now: If you are reading this and don’t want it posted here, then email me via the form on my contact page and I’ll remove it ASAP.

Thanks to Abby for the excellent video work. I’m number 98 with the black helmet and white gloves.

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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!

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