Only a fool would read everything on these pages; remember to stop when you've had enough - no gun is at anyone's head! It is also unnecessary to wait for any picture to load before clicking onto one of the following underlined links :

2002 (how most of my life came together as i thought it always had been before)

no.ID (cripshit i should not have to be bothered with, and so i state my case along with the implications and consequences here in order to get on with life)

c.1997 (a partially cringing and concessionary look at things that were once critical to me)

rough academic brief - http://www.geocities.com/kaurispandrel/oldrefs.html

This forest in the picture does not contain kauri as this website is named after, but is of podocarp and beech. I was watching a kereru fly between perches on different trees. I couldn't figure out if it was foraging for food or just keeping active. Indeed, it is pretty ambiguous as to make such a distinction and I don't think the pigeon would care. This was on the southern track to Fox Glacier, and during the drive to the track, the journey passes through more pure stands of silver beech. Going through these more pure stands helped highlight various types of graduations in forms and features across South and North Island forests that I could notice more clearly afterwards when I got among the podocarps in this photo. The memory of getting a small taste of Gondwana sure will always help me when I'm stuck away in my study at a computer! The trip was made possible by having Mum, Dad and my cousins provide the company, finance and logistics.

2002 no.ID c.1997

rough academic brief - http://www.geocities.com/kaurispandrel/oldrefs.html