Jan 19th: The boys schooled for a while in the morning while Steve spent some time fishing on the lakeside by the harbour entrance with the other Waimate kids, and caught three good-size fish. Here is one minus its head! After lunch our boys were encouraged by the morning's success to have their first try at fishing. After two hours of whittling sticks, throwing stones and other ways of filling time, we had caught nothing and it was time to pack up. Before driving home we headed to the far end of the lake to the dam I mentioned last weekend. The water was thundering down as they had opened the gates wide. We went to the bottom of the spillover ramps on the other side of the river and the noise and spray was immense. To top it all there was a gorgeous rainbow in the spray. It was such a big event that it was on the news and in the papers. You can have a look at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video.cfm?c_id=1&gal_cid=1&gallery_id=104132 to see the dam in action.
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