Jackie Chan owns a fitness gym in Kowloon.
One of the many stars on the Avenue of Stars along the Kowloon waterfront.
Bruce Lee statue on the Avenue of Stars.

Temple Street night market in Kowloon. Alot of junk for very cheap, but there are certainly treasures to be found as well.
Street signage at night in Kowloon.
These fish were so fresh they were actually flopping around on the table!

A typical afternoon street in Hong Kong.
A freeway through Hong Kong Island.

I had a 3 day stop-over in Hong Kong , while there I took the ferry out to Lantau Island to see a monastery and the world's largest outdoor seated Buddha.

After getting back from Australia I spent a week doing some volunteer work on a strawbale house, it was some very basic living but the food was really good and it was nice to walk in the surrounding hills.

For my final few days in New Zealand I did some hiking in the South Island's Abel-Tasman Park. Very beautiful indeed with plenty of shoreline and beach.

Just 3 hours bus ride from Canberra is Sydney, and the main purpose for my trip to Australia... to see the Opera House. I took alot photos of the building and bought a small paper model of it. The roof tiles were alot smaller than I thought they would be. I made sure to bring my jogging gear so I could go for a run along the Sydney seawall towards the Opera House.
One morning was also spent on Manley beach enjoying the sun and watching people surf.

I made a quick trip to Australia where I spent a couple days in the capital city of Canberra. I went to see the facilities at the Australian Institute of Sport and had to take a pic of one their olympic track bikes, unfortunately their velodrome was in Adelaide. I also had a look at the government buildings. And also the national museum which was quite colourful and unique.

My landlord in Christchurch is a bit of an Indian motorcyle enthusiast, he owns about 12 of them. He can also be seen as an extra in the movie "The World's Fastest Indian", he's one of the guys pushing Anthony Hopkin's bike in the beach racing scene.

On the way back from the west coast I spent some time hiking in the wet weather of Arthur's Pass. Lots of little water falls and great tracks with big views. It's easy to see why Peter Jackson decided to film LOTR in New Zealand.

While in Franz Josef I explored a man-made tunnel. I only went about 60m in as there was water and didn't need soaked footwear for the rest of my weekend. I'm not sure how far it went but I couldn't see the end. The top photo is looking towards the entrance from about halfway in.

For Easter weekend I took the scenic Tranz-Alpine train out to the west coast. I spent a day at Franz Josef checking out the glacier and hiking on the trails. The top photo is a typical west coast hiking trail, very lush with ferns and plenty of moss.

I relaxed at Akaroa a couple weekends ago, only about an hour southwest of Christchurch. A very nice place, all the street names in the town are french.

I went to the Antartic Center here in Christchurch last Saturday. They had an antarctic storm room with a constant temperature of -5 celsius and a simulated 25 kph windchill factor and real snow. Probably pretty exciting for people who haven't been to Canada in winter.

I made a trip to Hanmer Springs the weekend before last where I did some mountain-biking, only crashed once. I also went through a maze called "The Lost Temple", the third picture shows the "water challenge". I went through it without getting wet the first time but I decided to go through it a second time backwards and got soaked.

The view out of my room in Linwood house. I can climb out of the window...
... and onto this small wood wooden platform/balcony to sit and read in the sun.

The main staircase seen from the second floor.

Thomas Only! How am I supposed to fit through that tiny door? A cat door at a hostel for a cat named Thomas.

Linwood House: the huge, very old and very interesting house I'm living in here in Christchurch. There are about 12 other people living in it, it has 3 full bathrooms, 3 kitchens, and 2 livingrooms (one with a pool table). The red roof you see in the upper right is part of the back half of it, the front main part was built in 1857 and the back half was completed in the 1890's. Below is a pic of the inside of the entry hallway.

The bike I bought for about 100$ cdn to commute to work on, the Shimano 105 brakes on it are probably worth more than the rest of the bike. The frame has no decals on it so I have no idea what brand it is.

Allison at the base of the Skytower in Auckland just a few hours before she went to the airport to fly back home to Vancouver.

One of the city trams operating in Christchurch, Allison bought a very nice print of a similar tram by a local artist. The Chrisrchurch Art Gallery is in the background, probably my favourite NZ gallery so far.
A wire suspended "3D" metal sculpture in Christchurch's Arts District.
Historic Christ's College.
One of the heavily modified Massey Ferguson tractors that Sir Edmund Hillary used on an expedition across Antartica

Millions of Crunchie chocolate bars at the Dunedin Cadbury Chocolate Factory, I probably ate a little too much chocolate that day.
Allison standing on a historic street in Oamaru.
Trying to find penguins in Oamaru, unfortunately we didn't see any.
The unique sphere-shaped boulders at Moeraki

Allison stepped in something at Peter's Farm Hostel by Ranfurley.
An interesting shoe covered fence close to Ranfurley, the shoes covered almost a 1km stretch of fence.
Sheep running away from Allison.
The small Nissan March we drove around in on the South Island, it was good on gas but it was a challenge getting it up hills.