Mouvement immobile: l'oxymore de la pêche

A bientôt pour de nouvelles Naturfotografien (ach ja ja ich liebe die Natur, ca fait un mois que l'on se moque (très gentiment) des touristes allemands, toujours à la pointe des activités proNatur type marche ou Birdwatching (avec le chapeau)

flying dandy, digne fille de son père

hovering over the sand, literally

Sur les dunes à Farewell Spit (Karin adore le nom...)

On s'entraîne pour la saison de ski 2010-2011...

...avec les moyens du bord...

Même Tara en mange

We're lovin' it

Les Putros

(ou autrement appelé, Dal Burger, ou (moins sexy) Burger végétarien...
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh hommage à Thierry (ceux qui ne connaissent pas, promis, vous goûterez)

Natur Fotografie (3) (et ce n'est pas bientôt fini, non)

L'incontournable lever de soleil

La vue depuis le bus (j'ai quand même ouvert la porte vitrée car elle est sale...)

Chercher la petite bête

Il y avait une colonie de phoques après une marche de, hem, qui a duré près de huit heures... Il fallait bien une carotte au bout de la monture, pour les petits et les grands...
Bref ces gros dindons de mer se prélassaient au soleil, avec comme toute activité un petit bain, fort gracieux, pour se raffraîchir...
Un peu comme nous, somme toute.

Natur Fotografie (2)

Bon je me suis découvert NATURFOTOGRAF

et ça énerve bien Karin, car à chaque petit coin de sable, à chaque rencontre avec un coquillage, je m'arrête, dégaine en m'écriant: NaturFotograf (en allemand, ca fait plus sérieux...)
Je vous livre ici, en primeur, certaines de mes oeuvres puisque désormais, sur ma carte de visite, figurera:
Raphaël SCHMID, NaturFotograf

Un peu de couleurs

pour patienter jusqu'à la prochaine connection (dans longtemps...)
On vous aime

Bye bye guys!

Thanks for all your comments, love reading them! Love to all, huge hugs

We actually saw Kiwis jumping from up here...........

This tree seemed to be growing straight out of the sand....

Not Titikaka, quite yet.......

All the fresh local fruit is a total luxury!

Music

Je pense spécialement à vous Sara et Fred, ces jours - je comprends pourquoi vous avez fait Iggy dans ce pays............

Our fabulous detachable car horn!

We still can't believe the TREES here, so huge, so beautiful, they take our breath away....

Hitch hiker from california - so nice to be the ones to be able to pick up one, after all of those years being one....

R will roll his eyes when he sees i've posted this one ("mais elle est floue Karin!") but I don't care: love those two guys

Odile reminded us of Judith, and Cyrill reminded us of Fred

Spent a couple of days with a French family we're hoping to catch up with again on the south island - Tara and Renaud connected really well - they even had the same surfer top and shorts, strange coincidence

Luckily both Tara and I love some good showers and fresh weather, and even R appreciates some crispy morning air after the heat and humidity of Asia

We've not only had good weather... In fact it has been overcast half the time since we've got here, even some rain

mmmmmmm... real espresso.......

Never seen so many sausages in my life.... R did the mistake of saying yes to a proposal for a plate and got the biggest pile of sausages and fried pasta - mixed with some bacon stuff - he's ever seen. Impossible to finish (imagine his false pleasant smile when he received his plate). Lovely people! But their food.... ehm......

First van drive - it's definitely going better now :))

First van drive

Backing it out of its place for the first time. The gear shift, window whiskers and 'clignotant' are all in the wrong places - sometimes they're all triggered at once - at the same time as the horn button comes off into R's hands hahahhahhahhaa funny moments. The van is really in good shape though, great 'suspension' - I feel like a queen up there riding through these incredible landscapes

Vas-y Arthur, vas-y!!

The colors here often remind me of Norway. But the palm trees and (relatively) warm waves definitely do NOT... ;-D

Hot water beach

At this beach there was hot water just below the sand so all we needed to do was dig a whole and we had our own private spa!!

Hug in van

Guys: it's not ALWAYS this harmonious....

Singapore metro: speedy speedy!

What a wonderful family, thanks for the hospitality!!

Quite a radical change of living standards, being in AV's gorgeous house.....

Flashback to Singapore

The waitress in this café just offered me another 20 MB credit for free YEAH so I can post some more pics.... Will do a little flashback to Singapore, where we were so generously welcomed by AV and co. The kids had tons of fun hanging out - here by the art museum

The sand here is even softer than in the Andamans... R hasn't worn shoes since we got here (really!) - is THRILLED to see all the NZ people walk around barefoot, even in shops and on the streets. The kids as well. mmmmmm it's so laid back here

Some lazy beach time - although we are on the move quite a lot still. Heading towards the South Island on the 10th, and planning to find a place there to stay put for a week or so.

Crepes

We are LOVING tanking up on fresh fruits and veggies - eating them RAW mmmmmmmmmm........ finally a vitamine boost! yesterday we ate a huge bag of organic blueberries EACH. and salads..... and organic tofu.... been missing that....

Tara's dream come true: she's always been wondering whether organic coca cola could exist, with no chemicals: it does

See? Surfing is a lot like snowboarding. Wow: the Kiwi's are SO nice. And funny - keep shouting jokes to each other and us, loving it

What did Noam find on the FIRST beach we came to? Huh?

Where to go next?

Nice to just be drifting around and be free to park the van to sleep just about anywhere. Especially when you're orientationally retarded like R & me (maybe especially me......)

Les yeux plus gros que le ventre............

Guess who did NOT finish their ice cream cones?

World's biggest ice cream??

R's first bath in NZ