What’s Happening
Field to table
Another New Zealand hunting season has closed. Another season where we have appreciated nature...
Shooting times
On Anzac Day, April 25th, I decided to take Bentley on an early morning training run in coastal...
Challenging summer but good fishing
This update will touch a bit on all kinds; A NZ summer with some severe weather events but with...
Beneath New Zealand Seas
The artwork pictured above is a wonderful depiction of the Poor Knights Islands marine reserve...
Norwegian summer
After having continued our shooting season through the month of June, Aidan and I headed to...
Educating Bentley & past beginnings
The New Zealand hunting season finally came around in the first weekend of May. A thirteen months...
Style & Function
Northstream Blue Belle duck hunting in May 2015 30 years ago when I had arrived in Denmark and...
Salt Life
While the folks back home in Norway and Sweden have been battling heavy snow falls, storms and...
Pandemonium
Shortly after my previous post Northland went into another Covid lockdown. Aidan still managed to...
Refocus
Finally, a revamped website that is more functional and looks great thanks to some professional...
Tongariro River
Below: Aidan landing a Tongariro rainbow troutBack in April, shortly after Aidan turned 16, we...
Summer Diving
Since the last updates and since hunting season finished at middle of August, the focus has very...
The Honour Hunt
Northstream Blue Belle (14) & Aidan Luca Olsen (15) with Californian Quail & Brown Quail,...
Te Urewera
After a poorer snapper season last year, this summer has fished really well in Northland. Aidan...
Norway, Qatar & NZ
Two months into the 2017 hunting season we went back to Norway for six weeks. There we had a nice...
A Year Goes Fast
Another year went where hunting season passed into spring and summer, with fishing & diving....
Remnants of Summer
We're into the last remnants of summer in New Zealand. A lot of time Aidan and I have spent...
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is situated off the coast of Queensland, in relatively shallow waters...
Autumn Harvest
Summer has moved into Autumn and for us that means the fishing and diving change into more focus...
European Travels & Fishing
We're back in New Zealand after having spent a year traveling in Europe. Naturally, a lot of that...
Thoughts from Europe
I am writing these updates from a restored old farm house in the Saône-et-Loire department of...
In Memoriam – The story of Lapphaugen’s Moulin
Sunrise at Ocean Beach with Moulin in a frame from the film "Instinct", shot in 2003 when she was...
Coastal Feasts
John Dory for dinner!The sights and smells of summer..Finnefupster digging into some late night...
Shooting Season
Another New Zealand hunting season gone, from the first Saturday in May to the last Sunday in...
Poles Apart
On a recent trip to Queenstown in the southern part of NZ I was thinking about what incredible...
Spear Fishing
EDIT: Since I wrote the piece below Aidan got into spearfishing big time. We both use spearguns...
North Norway
We spent the entire month of July back home in North Norway. For once I didn't time a trip back...
Footballer
I have been football mad from a very early age. Seriously addicted. When I lived in Norway I...
Boys’ Weekends II & III
Various pics from boys' weekends August 2011 at and around Houhoura in the far north and February...
Melbourne Cup
The 2011 photo-finish we witnessed (above) and legendary Phar Lap winning in 1930...
Boys’ Weekend
A few pics from our boys' weekend January 15th/16th 2011 Aidan Ho, Ben Gray, Craig Wells, Chris...
Tangalooma
In August we took the trip over to Brisbane, Australia catching up with Hayley's sister Melanie,...
Paradise Ducks
The annual Paradise Shelduck hunt in the last weekend of February has just been. As tradition has...
Rainbow Warrior
Ten years ago, we celebrated the new millennium in the far north, with lots of fishing and diving....
Karearea
Working with classic bird dogs I've always been fascinated by birds of prey. This is an ancient...
Breeding Pointers
The Autumn season started well in Norway for the Barentsvidda dogs, which pleases me almost as if...
Summer Ahead
The New Zealand hunting season ended last weekend. As always I thoroughly enjoyed being out under...
New Website
Welcome to a new version of my website. Most of the information from the old pages can still be...