Yarra Bend Park

Situated right near the CBD, Yarra Bend Park is a welcome retreat from the busy streets. It is very popular with walkers, runners and cyclists so we went to check it out. It was easy to fill in a few hours wandering up and down the river, we even stumbled on a flash farmer's market.

Kayakers on the Yarra





Dwight Falls, not exactly huge



Fruit bats, now these were huge, and there were hundreds of them.

Brent and Julia's wedding

Our first trip back was for Brent and Julia's wedding. It was a rather rushed trip but it was great to catch up with so many friends and family while we were back. Even though it seems that Melbourne isn't far away, it still took a full day (after an early start) to get all the way to Invercargill.

The wedding itself more than justified the trip back, it was very well done. The ceremony was in the Wyndham Presbyterian church and it was packed. The reception was at Ascot Park in Invercargill.



Unfortunately, my photos were terrible, the one above was about the best of them.

We also caught up with Barry and Liz briefly as they kindly provided accommodation for us on the night of the wedding, complete with complementary mints on our pillows and cheese rolls for morning tea.

I managed to get home for a day and a half and following snow on Saturday night, the road reopened on Sunday afternoon so Juliet and Kevin could take me back to town. We stayed with Shanon and Martin and had Monday morning updating ourselves with the happenings in Dunedin before busing to Christchurch for my 5th different accommodation in as many nights before catching the early flight back on Tuesday morning.