How to Catch Fish

A top-selling book for New Zealand children packed full of tips on how to catch fish – in rivers, lakes or the sea. How to use fishing rods, make extra gear, fish from boats, tides, trout, fly fishing, salmon, eels, whitebait and knots. One of the most popular children’s fishing books ever in New Zealand

This site makes you dizzy just looking at the indexes.

I think your best photos are the ones being used. The photos in your albums, on your website or in Photobooks. What point is a ‘best photo’ that is sitting in a hard drive unused? Since the recent revolution in digital photography people are taking 10 times as many photos as they did with film – just because it’s free – or so they think. It actually cost quite a lot to keep buying new computers, new printers, more ink cartridges and update your software. It is false to think of it as free and what’s more it takes a lot of time to sort through those 10 times as many photos to find the best ones and then get them printed. Most people do not bother, it’s just too hard so Hard drives end up with tens of thousands of images floating around and the best ones are never retrieved and used.

Take less photos – file them in a sensible set of folders and use your best photos. If you are unsure how to do this then you can find out by joining one of the Digital Photography for Beginners six week classes run by Brian Miller starting March 12, 13 and 15 March in Dunedin and Mosgiel. Check course dates here.

AUTHORS Brian and Diane Miller, of Dunedin, have just launched a pocket•sized guide to the Otago Central Rail Trail and it has been so popular they are planning a reprint before Christmas.

The couple previously owned Tapui Children’s Books and have spent 20 years visiting schools throughout the South Island, selling children’s literature.

The couple thought there was a need for a compact booklet which provided plenty of information

More via >> Reprint planned due to demand for rail trail guide.

Over 10,000 people ride and enjoy the rail trail each year but too many ride each section without stopping   to enjoy the side-trips. This compact illustrated guide packed with useful facts, cross-sections, easy-to-digest information and suggested side trips will enhance your experience on the trail.

A book to buy before the trip and to use as you do the trail.

The first section explains why Central Otago is so special, with an overview of natural history – geology, climate, plants and animals. Photos help bikers identify the common plants and animals. The human history is equally fascinating – the first travellers, the squatters, the discovery of gold and the building of the Otago Central Railway on which the trail is built.

The cross-sections of each part of the trail along with maps of main towns and surrounding areas make it easy for ‘trail trippers’ to plan their movements. Includes tips for good lunch spots, fun quiz questions to enliven these breaks, locations of ‘loos.’…. Also web-site links, an “Events Calendar” for those who want to link their trip to regional activities, hints for taking better photos and biking tips.

This pocket-sized guide is so full of useful facts and easy-to-digest information that it should find a home in the pocket of every track visitor.

Price $NZ15.00 inc GST + freight of $2/book in NZ

Long and Light – the way of the Dirt Brevet

By Simon Kennett, as published in NZ MTBer

There’s a new style of mountain biking slowly spreading across the globe – call it a dirt brevet, bikepacking, or fat tyre randoneering if you like. It doesn’t matter. It’s about travelling light and covering big distances. Eighty kilometres a day is good for a starter; 250 kilometres isn’t out of the question. When that includes gravel roads and dirt tracks, you can expect to be riding from dawn to dusk.

via New Zealand Mountain Bike Blog.