Spatsizi is a hidden gem in Canada’s British Columbia, with the best food, fish, and people you could ask for. Our trip consisted of my family: James, my older brother; Juliana, my younger sister; Jeanine, my mum; John, my dad; and me. The whole time we were there, the guides and staff treated us like
I reckon that memories forged with your kids are the most precious assets you can acquire in this life and there’s few better places to find them than on the Spatsizi Plateau. The plateau is in the deep north of British Columbia, where the kids’ phones don’t work, the climate is outside of your control
I can tell New Zealand Customs that, in all honesty, I definitely packed this bag myself. Not quite a triumph of three dimensional spatial optimisation.
After a week working on combined SQL and AI data and text modelling, I decided to go low tech for the kids’ packing list for our Kiwi trip.
The kids and I are getting our fair share of the pie before packing for our trip to NZ next week. Apparently, I’m fact finding, as well as fish finding, as my AFR editor is angling for a hook on a NZ election story. I’m in party mode already, as you can probably tell.
Guess who is taking the family for a fly fishing trip to the mighty Tongariro? 🎣 Our first trip to Kiwi in four years, thanks to Covid. Packing the gear, as I type and hoping the waders haven’t shrunk. More to come …
Beautiful final day with no. 1 son at Klahoya Lake today. We parked the float tubes for a camp fire lunch by the lake. Unbeatable #Spatsizi No. 1 son in float tube on Lake Klahoya today. The stone flies were landing on the tube, by way of a hint on fly choice #Spatsizi Our
We’re all off to the Grayling Hole #Spatsizi today. Woo hoo! Spot the Bald Eagle on the nest in top of the broken tree #Spatsizi My little girl getting a lesson on fly selection from Master Guide Ray Collingwood at the Grayling Hole today #Spatsizi Lunch around the camp fire at the Grayling Hole today
Day whatever of our week dawns #Spatsizi and the pilots are already fuelling their floatplanes to take us out to catch (and release) some unwary trout. Hope springs eternal in the breast of this old trout hunter. Ray Collingwood our master guide, is taking the young-uns out fishing today. Here he’s getting to know them
In bear country, I like a guide who packs heat. Today we’re mountain climbing behind Lake Ella. All packed and ready to fly to the lake. Talk later. At the top of our hill climb today. Spot the float planes at the bottom of the shot. It was quite a hike #Spatsizi Tough day
