Thursday, September 20, 2007

first Florida photos

Hi friends and family,

Here's some photos of me in Florida over the last several months. Hope you enjoy them.




At Starbucks with my flatmates (Ruth, me, Jen, Emily, and Marcie)




Me, Emily, and Marcie at the Fairchild Botanical Gardens, Miami (we went there as part of a field trip)




Us planting rice in a seedling bed (July 07)



Learning to graft fruit trees (avocadoes, sapodillas, mangoes, etc)




Rice paddy no 1. after transplanting seedlings into it



Both rice paddies in early September. Unflooded (left), and flooded (right)
(My banana patch in the background)


Us interns and co. at Hickeys Creek


Me at Hickeys Creek

Sunday, September 16, 2007

The last few years

Hi freinds and family,

Thanks for checking my blogg. I thought for my first posting that you might enjoy seeing afew of my photos from the last year or so. These next ones are of my time in Ethiopia (Sept 05 - Sept 06), then afew of me in New Zealand before leaving for the U.S. in June 07.



Friends in Addis Ababa




Staying with a local family in Injibara - our bed above the sheep




Weighing sheep (as part of our sheep forage project)


Typical Ethiopian countryside in the Central Highlands (the area where I worked)


Horse racing - done on Ethiopian Orthodox holidays



The gals I travelled with on our week long tour of northern Ethiopia's famous archelogical sites.


Me being a tourist in Lalibella. Churches hewn out of solid rock in the ground - amazing!

Back in New Zealand:

Tim (my bro) and I at Castle Hill, Arthurs Pass National Park, New Zealand



Waimak and Esk Rivers seen from Flock Hill Station



Other photos taken while I was working at Flock Hill Lodge, Canterbury: