Does anyone know where the hell, Mike Holland is? Let alone Cindy, Andy, Trumpet, Cookie and a few others who may have slipped through the increased security of the war against terror, or TWAT as it is widely known amongst adolescent boys.
Anyway - me point is, wouldn't it be good to get some sort of reportage from the valley isle (Maui, HI) - seeing as we can't just press a button and instantly project ourselves there and take the crew's places ejecting them back home at the front-end of winter desperately trying to fend off taxation, mortgages and credit card debt, and scrimping to buy candles and generators and such - in case rolling blackouts hit the nation causing the south islanders to revolt and the Beehive to be sacked by crazed, vengeful farmers armed with home-made cruise missiles they'd whipped together in their haybarns.
But I digress entirely. Could someone get a message to Mike to log on - there were some guys in dark sunglasses who came here looking for him. That's not entirely true but it might work. Actually as I recall, he appreciated a bit of forum-ranting. Last time I saw him, he fell out of my chair reading the
www.anabatic.co.nz/forum - I couldn't figure out what was wrong with him, thought he'd broken his ribs and all. Four bottles of red wine did have some effect I will concede, Mike distinguishing himself in my 'lifetime gallery of outstanding acts of reckless behaviour' by destroying two full Merlots. It was after all, only a couple of weeks since I'd seen Perrin guzzle a full bottle of chilled chardonnay - and I'd been profoundly affected by that incident also. Anyway, back to my pad: Gavin (a lightweight teetotaller) was seen totalling about t'ree glasses - pretty much what you'd expect from a man of his age and experience. Which leaves a bottle and a half - and I wish I had of. Lee was also there getting tiddly on his lite beer and getting audibly louder by the second. Granted: the rest of us probably weren't completely quiet. Mike was flying back to Maui the next day, and is no doubt still a tad dehydrated. Anyway, drop us a line guv'na.
In news just to hand, a dude in Kaikoura has tragically lost his life in a whale rescue incident. Or has he? When was the last time you heard of a guy riding off on a whale - right at the same time as his country's film freakishly called
Whale Rider was playing to packed houses overseas? Now that's publicity you just can't buy, even if it was really an opening salvo in the plot by whales to re-take the planet.
I have long suspected whales, especially the big, Blue whales as being the superior species. They are the biggest of all the creatures that have ever lived - they are also the oldest, and for all we know - the smartest. They patrol and control the seven seas - the vast majority of the globe is their domain and they are the very top of the food chain. Even a pod of killer whales would have trouble making one of these bad boys blink - and despite the concerted efforts of a couple of thousand years of humans trying to wipe them out, including using undersea nuclear detonations - there are still 2000 of them that hang out around Antarctica.
Each one of them eats more food per day than a whole street of humans - and these beasts can communicate with each other ACROSS oceans using sonar that still perplexes the US Navy (which spitefully runs experiments, and a protective undersea anti-submarine sonar network around North America that continuously emits frequencies known to seriously affect marine mammals). They, (the seppos) also cruise around in nuclear-powered steel tubs and try to masquerade as whales themselves, while continually practising to unleash nuclear terror on the planet, despite there being no threat of retaliation. I can't believe the whales put up with it, maybe they're still biding their time.
But what does all this have to do with kiting? Nothing - but the Kaikoura whale rider it must be admitted, is equally as bizzarre as the big fire just down the road in Christchurch, NZ last week - and two plane crashes! Has the whole world gone stark raving troppo?
Anyway, back to the Discovery channel... :?:
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