Tired and rambly

[vibrantabyss]

And used to writing on a sub-laptop sized keyboard, so am having to correct a pile of typoes as I go...

Today was a three hour hike after a late start and long drive out of ChristChurch.  Back, well and tired.  Clock claims it is almost 9pm and it doesnt feel it at all.  Tomorrow I go diving in the morning, then head off for the remains of my stay, which will be in and around Nelson.

+ total cash found is now up to $107.20, $5 went to tip the guide on the glacier walk, and $2 went to support a penguin habitat
+ heard random music out hiking today.  poked around in the bush, and found a cell phone.  managed to get it home to its owner.
- my camera took a fall while offloading dad at the airport.  camera is ok, but lens is comatose, and may be dead - at the very least something popped loose inside.  at worst some plastic housing broke.
+ very not upset about the lens.  discovered this within minutes of finding the cellphone, so just part of the greta give and take of life.
- have spend no time sunning, and need to work on unpastywhitening
+ weather looks to be excellent for that
+ I am a crazy man that goes to a place with 200 days of rain a year, with no raingear.  And never misses it

- My inner asshole came out on the road today.  I car hauling a trailer which I was passing, and about even with his back door, decided that he was going to pass the car in front of him, then and there.  Maybe he forgot he had a trailer, but even without one it would have been a dangerous move.  After I recovered from going off the road I blew by him, and he had to suffer 45 minutes of a car doing 60 in a 100 zone which would not let him pass.

+/- Lots of ghosts coming up for me, all going well though.

Image from the walk today: 

Treetrunks tossed like toothpick bones on the narrow strand of beach below, as a school of sails tack in time, avoiding an unseen hunter.