Comments on: Goat Island Marine Reserve

By: josh

josh — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:46:22 +0000

Haha nice. It is illegal to fish there because it is a reserve. I keep trying to catch snapper. One day.

By: andi

andi — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:02:45 +0000

he dude in this water it should be possible to catch some snapper. OK I told you need to catch one for me and take a nice picture. Have fun in the South. Later Josh

By: josh

josh — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:14:15 +0000

Hi Frank. Good to hear from you.

By: Frank Dixon

Frank Dixon — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:50:16 +0000

Hello Josh Moore, looks like you’re doing fine in NZ. I hope you realize this is an experience of a life time,soak it up. Just wanted to say hello. I love the pictures. Everything is fine here. Take good care of yourself. May God be with you. Frank (from Ridgewood)

By: josh

josh — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:54:15 +0000

Haha I’m glad you liked it Kriz. Perhaps I should start a series of history books “Back in the Day” – as in “New Zealand: Back in the Day” and “Salisbury: Back in the Day.”

By: Kriz

Kriz — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:26:02 +0000

Josh, that last comment was great:

“Apparently, back in the day when people were cruising around in their boats discovering New Zealand, they would leave goats on islands they passed.”

You should write a history book in this style…it would be informative and entertaining.

Glad you guys are still having a great time, I enjoy reading all the comments and viewing the pictures. I may not post too often but I just thought I’d let you know I’m watching and always waiting for more….

By: josh

josh — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:29:26 +0000

Beth just reminded me to explain why it is called Goat Island. Apparently, back in the day when people were cruising around in their boats discovering New Zealand, they would leave goats on islands they passed. That way, on their return trip they could stop back at the island and have well fed goats to eat. So that happened with Goat Island, and the name stuck.

By: Clara

Clara — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:07:58 +0000

Thanks for explaining. I found Queenstown on the map. You’ll be not far from the southternmost tip–right next to mountains.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:21:45 +0000

We did go all the way to the Northern tip, but Leigh was our first stop for the first night. I will post more over the next few days .

We are planning to live in Queenstown, at least for a while. We have season lift tickets to the mountains there to snowboard. It is in the mountains near the southern end of the South Island, so I would imagine the weather will be rather chilly . I hear the South Island is really beautiful, and lots of long stretches with no inhabitants. We are excited to get down there.

By: Clara

Clara — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:38:47 +0000

I found Orewa and Leigh on the map. At first I thought you were going to the northern-most tip, but I see you were about 100 km north of Auckland center. The scenery looks lovely. What area of the South Island will you be heading for in May? And how cold will the weather get when winter is in that area? My sense is that the terraine is quite different on the two islands. Right?