What do you do in Shanghai during the Chinese New Year if you are an ex-pat and no contacts with the local population other than your colleagues at work and work closes down for a
week? You go out boozing with those who are left in a similiar situation. Wrong. You fly down to New Zealand for a week to do some fishing!
Date
Day
Activity
2001-02-03
1
Shanghai – Sydney Sydney – Christchurch
2001-02-04
2
Christchurch. Met up with friends from Sweden who were on a four week fishing trip. Stayed with New Zealand friends in Christchurch.
2001-02-05
3
Drove down to Omarama in a rental car in order to fish in the Ahiriri River and to carry carry out some surveillance of the area prior to my friend organising a fishing trip to NZ
for a group of people.
2001-02-06
4
Continued with the surveillance work and hired the services of a guide. Very friendly and knowledgeable guy. Decided to test the effects of river water on my mobile phone and camera
by falling in the Ahiriri River
2001-02-07
5
Fished in the area again.
2001-02-08
6
Continued fishing
2001-02-09
7
Picked up in Omarama by my NZ friends who were taking some friends from USA on a sightseeing trip of the South Island and brought back to Christchurch.
