Onward to Glaciers

We stayed one day in Wanaka and quickly headed to the Franz Josef Glacier. The glacier was smashed in between two large mountains. Furthermore, there was a visible crack between the two continental shelves. very cool. We strapped on our foot clamps and began the five hour hike up and through the glacier. There's a main stream that goes through the heart of the glacier. Sometimes, the waterways gets clogged up by a large ice rock, and eventually builds up enough pressure to bust through the opening. Last time, it shot out like a ton worth of rock and ice a km out of the glacier. Don't want to be around for that!

yahoo! We stayed the night the town Franz Josef to head over to the northern part of the south island.

The plans were to go kayaking in the abel tasman sea, but the weather was a bit dodgy so we ended up taking three days to roll back down to campus. We stopped in Kaikora to enjoy some beautiful coast lines, but didn't stay for long since we would be returning once I got all my school crap done.

We arrived back to Lincoln Uni on April 26th. I had a few papers to turn in, and then we quickly headed back to Kaikora to kayak with seals!!! We took the same coastal walk I did with my dad, which was nice to return to.

Our last day was rainy and cold, but we still managed to sea kayak next to colonies of seals! some pups attempted to swim by us, but the water was too rough, and they still weren't the best swimmers. very cute to watch.

We headed back to Chrsistchurch one last time. I took Anthony to the Chch Botanical Gardens, my favorite part of the city. We went strolling through the rose gardens and some historic conservatories. We finally had to say our goodbyes on May 2nd, which was no fun. BUT! we got to see almost every highlight of the south island, finished two great walks, climbed glaciers, sea kayaked, river sledged, and saw some amazing scenery in between. :-)

Queenstown: Adventure capital of the world!

After the scenic drive through fjord land, we head to Queens town to meet some of my friends from Lincoln Uni. We decided to take it easy and hit up a couple pubs. It was a nice way to enjoy the west coast after a hard tramp.

Here's the view from our Hostel, probably one of the best pictures I've taken on the trip.

Intially, I was planning on sky diving in Queenstown, but then I realized I couldn't jump off a five foot cliff on the north island, so me and Anthony decided to go river sledging instead.

River sledging consist of going down a 5km rapid with a boogie board. We took two runs down the rapid, each lasted about 40 minutes long. IT WAS INSANE. There was heaps of eddies and whirl pools that felt like a monster was pulling you under and pooped you out slowly. Anthony was having some trouble getting in and out of the eddies, so we were about 2 km away from each other the entire time. Despite me getting popped in the head by a stout German lady's board, it was tons of fun. We went up and down 7 foot waves and were twirled around in whirl pools. It was neat.

After Queenstown, we took a road through mountains that was so treacherous that no rental cars were allowed on the highway. My little Corona showed no signs of death as we putt putted up and down the mountains to the rugged west coast.

Here's one of the Lakes heading to Wanaka. The west coast is known for is rough roads and beautiful scenery. We arrived in Wanaka at mid day and were ready to relax!

The Milford Sound

The Routeburn Track ended about an hour outside Queenstown, but we had to go alllll the way back to Te Anau to pick up the car before going back to Queenstown...poor planning on my part.

We decided to make one last stop at the Milford Sound, which is the most famous fjord area of the southern west coast.

We started with 3 quarters of a tank in my old corona, but almost didn't cut it. I drove up the steepest and swirvest hills ever, Talk about a heart attack! It took us over 2 hours to get there, even though it was almost 90 km away....and we stayed there for twenty minutes. poop.

But. Here it is. Notice how excited I get from the tugboat. FJOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDDDDDDDD

To the Routeburn Track

After getting to the main land, we packed up our car and headed to fjord land.

FJOOOOOOOOOOOORDDDDDDDDDDDD.

We arrived to the beautiful town of Te Anau, and started the 3 day route burn track the next morning. The track goes through the heart of the fjord land and is ranked in the top eight tracks of New Zealand (the Stewart island track made the cut as well). We started up a gentle slope through the silver and mountain beech forest and a lime green moss covered everything. It was straight out of gnome world.

I saw the biggest waterfall of my life too! the fjord land averages about 7 metres of rainfall per year. THAT'S ALOT. Luckily, we we covered by a canopy of trees.

so first day was a success.

The second day rained buckets and buckets and buckets. I decided that I would pack really light compared to my 50 lb bag in Stewart island, so i decided to not bring any extra clothing. FAIL. Anthony and I were completely soak. Even worse, the entire second day of the track is exposed at the top of the mountain so we had no protection from the rain or wind. Even WorseR, the track was flooding from the amount of rain that day, so we were basically hiking through a stream/waterfall.

My shoes were suppose to be waterproof. FAIL

My jacket was suppose to be waterproof. DOUBLE FAIL.

The rocks were extremely jagged throughout the track as well. At certain points, I was stepping in a foot of water and had to climb down giant drops. I slipped a couple times and a lady at the previous hut broke her ankle. So no pictures from this day. But here's our view from our second hut that was located at the bottom of a waterfall!.

Our meals during these tracks were a bit dodgy. We attempted to make spaghetti with Asian sauce...that's wasn't too appetizing. So we basically stuck with Chile and noodle soup, and a boat load of peanut butter sandwiches.

The third day of the track was just wonderful. We had beautiful weather as we gently strolled down to the bottom of the mountain.

See, we happy campers.

So, Anthony and I hike 62 km in 7 days, didn't kill each other, and got our hiking legs which I have not used since then. Yahoo!.

Pictures

Here's a link to my pictures! From Akaroa to Australia!

BADDA BING!
http://picasaweb.google.com/coldwinds87

Fall break: Anthony in Aotearoa!!!!

Hello!!! I'm now up to the events which took place from April 9th-may 2nd: my fall break.

SIDE NOTE: I had my bottom two wisdom teeth extracted. I received no laughing gas or knock out treatment. I only got that shot you get when you have cavities. I SAW EVERYTHING. and I got to keep my teeth! really weird!

ok! so On April 9th, Anthony arrived in NZ with some complications with airport flight times. soooo i started our day out with some meat pies and giraffes! We went to the wildlife park of Christchurch, which basically is a safari. HUUUGE habitats for the animals, and we both saw our first kiwis!

kiws are actually noctoral so they have to assimulate night condition during the day so tourist can see them active.

The next day, we headed off to Dunedin. It was a beautiful drive, except we got stuck in traffic for about 2 hours right out Chch. There was an accident on a bridge. Several of the bridges here only have room for one lane, so each side must coordinate. LOST of accidents occur.

I took Anthony to the same look out cliff with the Albatross and seal colonies. It takes about 30 minutes of mind numbing driving to head out to the tip of the peninsula. But we had a splendid time searching for big birds.

Our first week was a bit intense. We had two 3-day tramps that were about 36 km each to accomplish in 7 days. After Dunedin, we rushed down to Bluff to catch a ferry over to Stewart Island. I was becoming a bit panic-y on the way down and accidentally locked the keys in the car. BUT! since everyone in NZ is lovely, we had no problem finding help to prop the door open. We were off to the island around 5 PM. We arrived about an hour later to find absolutely no vacant accommodations available. Apparently the island is a hot spot during Easter weekend...whoops. We finally looked so pathetic that the hostel allowed us to stay in a tiny room for hostel workers. Hey, whatever works.

We started the Rakiura track early the next morning. It started with gorgeous coastal tramping, followed by a two hour hike within native bush. Stewart is known for two things: bird (especially kiwi) and rain. Luckily it didn't rain at all during our tramp. There are a ton of birds since many of the invasive species haven't populated on the island. There are quite of few tom cats and some possums, but not nearly as devastating in numbers as the north and south island. Actually, if you're going to see a kiwi in the wild, it would be here. I only saw kiwi poop though..i think :-(

The entire track is pretty much on a board walk or cable bridge, which became annoying at times. LOTS of mud.
We saw some kea birds in the forest, which is New Zealand's most expensive conservation project for threatened species. Kathleen told me from her wildlife class that they spend a million dollars on habitat restoration/research per year. sounds like alot right? but it also takes one million dollars to fix a metre of road. ONE METRE. So I'm not sure what to think of that. After the 3 days, Anthony and I enjoyed a beautiful morning sunrise over the Stewart island harbour, and headed back to the main land for another 3 day hike! what was I thinking!??!?!

last week of March: MAAAAAAAAAAAA

The last weekend of March, my parents came to visit! We spent the first two days in Kaikora, which is my favorite area in New Zealand. There's heaps of birds and one of the only places where there's mammalian wildlife....aka SEALS AND WHALES.

The weather was gorgeous! My dad and I went on a cliff track which went along a seal colony. BUT! the first part was up the cliff into a cow pasture. mud pies, no fun.

We then decided to climb down the cliff and make our way to the car along the coastline.

problem number: tide was coming in

problem number two: seals were everywhere. and they get mean.

We had to hop along a couple places to avoid the tide. I ALMOST stepped on a seal. There was this one blind spot and a seal was peacefully sleeping right where my foot was about to land. Luckily, my screen didn't alarm him too much....

The next day we went whale watching, which I never thought I would ever do. We took this rocky boat out 3 km off shore and waited for about 20 minutes or so. I'd like to think that I saw the blow hole first, but who knows. Apparently male Sperm whales congregate in Kaikora that time of year. Currently, I think it's hump back whale season. This is due to the drop off of the continental shelf.

Anywayss!! Here he is!

The tour ended a tad early. So in order to kill some time, the tour company drove us by a huge school of dolphins. hundreds and hundreds of dolphins flipping, flopping, and mopping! It was nuts.

We ended the days with a brisk walk in a native forest and a big meal and cable TV. yum :)

The last day, I took them around my campus and to Christchurch, which was very nice too.

And this one is for Jessica. Cheers.

recap one: dunedin

Holy crap. Ok sorry for the lack of blogging. I had midterms at the end of March. Anyway, I've done a metric tonne of traveling in the past month, so bare with me.

DUNEDIN

Our closest kiwi friend, Hamish, lives in the beautiful city of Dunedin, which is about four hours south of Christchurch. So Me, him, Kathleen and Alex took a weekend trip to stay stay with him mum and search for some coastal wildlife.

side note: Hamish is a VERY popular name here. Scottish origin. It's pronounced hAmish, not Hamish like a ham. Kathleen and I didn't figure this one out til after a month of hanging out with him. He thought it was just our accent....

anyways, Here's us on the way down!

Our first stop was to the steepest street in the world, which was quite steep. We found a ton of super balls in the bushes on the way, which was fun. There was no way in hell our beautiful corona was going to make it to the top, but people actually live up and down the street. Hamish's mum told us that a few years back, two drunks boys took their wheel barrels to the top so they can race...which ended up fatal....but our superball race was a success!!!!

Here's me searching hard for super balls in the brush.
Ok! so next stop was Cad bury world!!!!! Since we went on a weekend, the factory was closed so nothing was in action. I was choking on my chewy banana bar for the half the tour...all and all it wasn't the chocolate lovers dream, but they did have one ton of chocolate pour down this tunnel in three seconds...neat.

ONWARDS!! We then twisted and turned our way around the Dunedin peninsula to the ALBATROSS AREA!!! THEY'RE HUGE!!! The view from the peninsula was gorgeous, and was infested with seals.

Side note: kiwis pronounce peninsula like penichula.

Hamish's dad is a well known entomologist/ecologist of New Zealand, so Hamish picked up a few field techniques which came in handy. He found a blue penguin nest that was in a ditch covered by brush. So one at a time, we all poked our head down into the brush to come 2 feet away from blue penguins. very cool. We then we're greeted by mister beautiful!!!!

We then made our way to sand fly dune on the peninsula in search of yellow penguins. We attempted to arrive at the dune at dusk to watch the yellow penguins come in from feeding. We ended up doing army crawls in order to spy on them!

Here's us in action. ooohhh do we look like scientist or what!

look at them heads!

We ended the day with a wonderful home cooked meal from Hamish's mum. It was soooooo nice to have good food for once.

The next day, we went to the Speight's, the largest brewery in New Zealand.

After this trip, I can honestly say Dunedin is my favorite place yet. It has alot more character than Christchurch with more Scottish heritage than English. AND! here's our Corona in front of the famous apartment from the kiwi movie, Scarfies.

Same house: http://www.nzfilm.co.nz/FilmCatalogue/Films/Scarfies.aspx

Dunedin Updates coming soon

Here's a little sneak peak.

grizzlies and chocolate

I'm off to Dunedin in about 4 hours...which is 3 AM.

anyways.
Here's my new favorite song:

http://www.grizzly-bear.net/media/cheerleader.mp3

I'm cool!

I met the shocking pinks (one man show) at a bar that smelled like grandmas! And apparently pitchfork approves.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7767-dance-the-dance-electric/

two week recap

Ok! Sorry for the lack of postage.

Sooooo Last weekend, Kathleen, Alex (our friend from Cali), and I took the old Corona out to Hanmer Springs, which is about a two hour drive through the mountains (or very very very large hills). BEAUTIFUL DRIVE. and the old grandma car didn't give us any problems.

HOWEVER! While we were on the open highway, we began to here this faint Tinkerbell noise coming from the dashboard. We didn't know if it was a polite warning that the car was going to blow up, or some other quirk. The bell came on and off for about another 15 minutes, until we realized it was a warning that we were going 5 km/hr over the speed limit. so anytime we go 105 km/hr, which is like 65 mph/hr tops, we have to deal with the most annoying bell I have ever heard in my life.

The front doors also unlock when you close them. So! We have to close the front doors, lock the front from the back door, and then finally close the back doors. (I hope that makes sense).

Nevertheless, I love that car.

Anyway, we headed up to Hanmer Springs on Saturday and then went for a hike to a waterfall in the mountains. Kathleen, Hailey (a kiwi girl), and me tagged behind a bit, and we eventually got to a fork in the path where the two signs said "to waterfall: 5 minutes" and "Dangerous Pathway: Beware of unsafe ground and boulders." So, we continued straight assuming it was the right path. 45 minutes later, we were at the top of the stupid mountain with no waterfall!! I scuffed up my leg a bit when i fell of this edge, and the rest of the pathway was sooooooo unstable! Hailey said this was a good path compared to some other tracks in New Zealand....can't wait for that .

Here's the beautiful view at the unexpected top and the final destination of the water fall:

Later that same day, we headed off to the hot springs and sulphur pools, where I accidentally oxidized all my silver jewelry. :(

We were planning on sleeping in the car, but some of our friends from the dorm rented a cottage for the night, so all the Americans (all 13 of us), slept there.

The next day, we enjoyed a casual walk along the wetlands, and stopped at brewery on the way home. We had a little trouble finding the trail, and ended up driving up this mountain. Not even kidding: the road was smaller than an alley and had a complete drop off at the edge. very stressful driving to say the least.

This weekend was the wild food festivals on the west coast, which consist of eating really gross parts of really gross animals. So I decided to pass on the festival and explore around my university.

My window in my dorm faces the mountain range that separates Christchurch and Banks Peninsula. I decided to find the bottom by bike!

It was a beautiful day for a bike ride: low 70's and barely any wind. I found a couple cute cafes and only one dead hedge hog.

Here's me!

I also finally made it out to the downtown area on Saturday night! yippeee!

This next week coming up is going to stink. I have an organic farming debate. I'm representing the social bonds created by organics. Then, I have to present a poster board for landscape architecture, and finally finish my first lab for my GIS course.

The grading system is really goofy here. There's only 2-3 assignments the entire year, and the final count as 70% of the entire semester grade. No pressure.

Once I get through this week, I will be heading down to Dunedin where my friend kiwi, Hamish, lives. Our weekend goal is to find albatrosses, penguins, and run down the steepest street in the world. I'll have plenty of stories when I return, and I am so happy we have a personal kiwi guide :)

Surfs up!

So this is my second week, and things have been shaping up!

Here's a quick recap:

1. I officially have a bike now. I had to take a bus ride to the north side of Christchurch to pick it up, and I was planning on taking it on the bus ride home.

Problem #1: no buses allow bikes on the bus unless there is a bike rack.

Problem #2: no buses have bike racks.

So I had no choice but to bike the 1.75 hour ride home. Plus, it was my first experience riding in a city, AND a country road. The country road was not so fun. Very windy. All the horses in the pastures ran up to the side to greet me....all the sheep ran away. And I found six hedgehog road-kills.

2. We took a weekend trip up to Akaroa, which is a huge peninsula that is about 50 minutes out side Christchurch. The weather is pretty bad, but we managed to get a kayak ride in before the rain started.

We stopped at the shoreline further down the harbor, and found lots and lots of starfish, crabs, and this fossil looking creature. They're huge bird all along the side too. They seemed to be equivalent to our king fisher, but looked more penguin like!

We also took about a 3 hour hike, which was by far the oddest hike I've ever been on. It started up a mountain that was definitely a sheep and cow pasture, judging by the massive amounts of poop. Plus, we had to jump five barbed wire fences to continue on the path.

Best part: Sheeepp!!!!!!

Sunday morning, we took a bus ride back to the beach, and went swimming all day in the ocean.

Needless to say, it was a successful weekend.

This week, we bought a car! It's a 1984 Toyota Corona. We nick-named it El Corona Abuela. She's beautiful. And the despite the car being older than me, it has really good gas mileage, or rather kilometerage....and runs smoooooooth. We bought it from this place called the Backpackers market, which serves as the middle man between backpackers buyers and sellers. Which means we can sell our car back for the same price when we leave.

3. I had a field trip into the city for my Landscape Architecture class, which basically was a free tour of the city.

4. My favorite class so far as been organic farming productions. I have a debate team of about 4 people for my next project, all of which are kiwis. We got to find some cultural differences today. Such as, They asked me if Americans walk around barefoot and in board shorts. I obviously said no, and they were really surprised. Everyone walks barefoot here. In class, in the city streets, in the grocery store. It is a cleaner country, but I don't know if it's THAT clean.

Here's some quirky things that you might find interesting.

1. The majority of the country's firefighters are volunteers. Every time there is a emergency call, they ring a siren (sounds like a tornado warning in the states) and the volunteers from all over town respond.

2. The majority of toilets have two buttons: half flush and full flush. It took me a week to figure this out.

3. Fall out boy is huge.

4. New Zealand has no native mammals. It once had a bat species, but died off when peoplez came.

5. mullets dominate.

6. Kelp (the seaweed) is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

Besides that, I am very much enjoying it here. The weather has FINALLY turned around and it has been sunny and in the 70's daily. Today, I went to organic farming, and then drove to the beach in our little Corona blasting the Beach boys. I don't think I've ever appreciated Surfin' USA as much as I do now.

Life is good.

First day: owned

So my first day of class did not go as planned. I guess I'm trying hard to fit in with the natives, but there's definitely some differences.

Such as:
(mind you it was 52 degrees oustide today and raining)

1. everyone wheres flip-flops or is barefoot
Me: Big brown shoes

2. everyone is in shorts and a tank, usually of some surf brand of clothing
Me: I wore a lumber jack patterned shirt and a huge rain coat...all of which were brown

3. no one drinks soda
me: I'm dying for a diet pepsi

4. everyone eats tomato sauce (which taste like tomato soup gone wrong)
me: I need ketchup

5. there's baked beans and spaghetti for breakfast
me: I don't think so.

6. Everyone listens to mid 90's music still, including backsteet boys and Sugar Ray.
me: no

PLUS SIDE OF THIS COUNTRY: IT LOVES CHOCOLATE

ME: YESSSSSSSSSS


Even worse, they don't warn classes of future labs and field trips. I now have a lab on late Friday afternoon, and a field trip the entire second half of my mid semester break.

I actually was pretty pumped for the soils class. The field trip is going to be traveling down south in the middle of this private conservation area to survey wetlands soils and gas exchange. wetlands and gas? That's totally my thing.

However, that would be my only time to travel....so I'll have to drop it :(

On a happier note, I bought a bike yesterday!!!



One problem: I have no car to pick it up.

So I guess my first week has consisted of some minor set backs, but I'm sure everything will work out.

Embarrasing story of the week:
My school's recreation center provides free fitness classes, including boxing, yoga, pump Jam, and Step.

So Kathleen and I decided to attended the step class. Our instructor looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, and had the energy of Rich Simmons. We were the youngest people in there by about 20 years, and apparently everyone knew the step dance except for us.

Sore thumb indeed.

Friends Forever

In Rotorua, we went to Rainbow Springs, which is a zoo for native animals.

As we were strolling up the side walk, this donkey came trotting down a hill to greet us.

And this is what happened when we began to walk away. Don't mind my laughs and crackles in the background...

Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicki-in-newzealand


HOORAH

First Week Recap

I am on campus!!!! Our trip was amazing!

Our first two nights were in Raglan, like a mentioned before. Beautiful beaches!

After Raglan, we headed over to ontrahanga to cave tube! This was the only day it rained out of the entire week traveling, and we luckily, we were underground.

They took us in the middle of farms to enter the cave. I was about to have a heart attack the whole drive there. ALL the roads in New Zealand curve tightly around huge mountains. And of course, the kiwis bust some major butt to on these roads. But I'm alive.

The cave was unbelievable. We were either walking chest deep in water, swimming and chillin down the cave stream in tubes! the majority of the caves are populated with the famous glow worms, which are actually maggits in the larva stage. The actually adults are GIGANTIC crickets with 8 inch spider like legs. And! There was eels swimming in the water! gross gross gross. I kept thinking about the screaching eels from "Princess Bride." It wasn't very comforting.



Anyways! After squeezing into doggy door sized tunnels and jumping off a 7 foot drop off in the cave stream, we made our way out of the caves and into the sub tropical forest, WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL! It's mostly populated with ferns, palm trees (which I think are called cabbage tress) and conifers.



OK! After that, we made our way to Rotorua, which is the city of gas! Literally, the whole area smelled like someone was constantly farting. We started off our day visiting a living Maori village, which was located on a hot spring/geysers area. There, we ate an authentic Maori meal, consisting our cabbage, yams, potatoes, and carrots. They actually utilize the thermal energy for all purposes, including bathing and cooking. So! they place a bag of vegetables directly into the hot spring to cook meals! Apparently the sulfuric compounds and minerals brings out the taste...i think it had a dash of fart seasoning....but still good.

Next, we took a sky lift to the top of the mountain to over look the city, and then "lugged" down the mountain twice. Basically, it's a go-cart propelled by gravity. Very fun!


THEN! we went to the Rainbow Springs, which had a plethora of native wildlife. Most of the animals there seemed to enjoy the company of humans. In particular, a donkey was extremely grateful for the company and didn't want us to leave. He was bit of a cry baby about it....I have videos to post later.

Finally, we got mud paths! The mud in Rotorua is notorious for its healing powers. And after carry our back pack all day, it felt pretty damn good.


We left the city at around midnight to arrive in the Tongoriro, the home of Mt. Doom! We decided to do the 19.4 km (12.05 miles) track climb to the top of this mountain. The only problem was that we didn't arrive at our hostel until 2 AM, and we had to hop on the bus to the base of the volcano at 7 AM. but! 7 hours later, we tracked all 12.05 miles!

So here I am! On campus! I'll fill in those details later.

Mental Note: The E's are pronounced as I's...I had a huge misunderstanding when this tour guide was telling me he was a "trickin guide." meaning track guide for trails....buuuuttt I didn't know that. So naturally, I was like asking him what kind of magic tricks he performed.

I'm so cool.

surfing

Surfing is officially chequed off my list. I was able to get up multiple times and no jellyfish were attached to my butt! I can't wait to post these pictures. The shoreline was surrounded by green mountians were a bit of a mist on the caps. I felt like I was in a post cards. Needless to say, this is still unreal.

These bus schedules are getting messy, but we're attempting to leave for waitimo tomorrow and do a 5 hour cave rafting tour.

http://www.waitomo.com/caving-adventure.aspx


Side note: I missed a spot on my face when I was applying sunscreen. I now have a perfect triangle next to my eye ball. cute.

sun is 10 times stronger here than the US!

byee!!!!

Kia ora!


It's mid afternoon Wednesday! I'm relaxing in my hostel that overlooks the ocean. It's awesome here. We ran into a a few snags in the begginning. The plane ride wasn't bad at all. We got off the plane at 4:30 AM, and attempted to chill in Auckland before heading to Raglan. However we ended taking the wrong bus which ran through the poorest neighborhod of the city. But besides that, everything has gone wonderfully. I'm not sure if we looks confused, but we had over 10 people ask us if we needed direction in the first few hours. Even the bus drivers took time to explain everything. We're just shocked about how friendly everyone is.

Last night, we took a walk along the shore and the tide was down. Literally, we were walking on millions of sea shells and star fish. AND THERE"S JELLY FISH!!!!

but today, we're taking surf lessons, and then taking a casual bike ride in town and then heading to the pub.

I could live in this town forever. Everything is clean, everyone is bare foot.


More to come later, I gotta surf!

This is a test.

It works!