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Another New Zealand hunting season has closed. Another season where we have appreciated nature...

On Anzac Day, April 25th, I decided to take Bentley on an early morning training run in coastal...

This update will touch a bit on all kinds; A NZ summer with some severe weather events but with...

The artwork pictured above is a wonderful depiction of the Poor Knights Islands marine reserve...

After having continued our shooting season through the month of June, Aidan and I headed to...

The New Zealand hunting season finally came around in the first weekend of May. A thirteen months...

Northstream Blue Belle duck hunting in May 2015 30 years ago when I had arrived in Denmark and...

While the folks back home in Norway and Sweden have been battling heavy snow falls, storms and...

Shortly after my previous post Northland went into another Covid lockdown. Aidan still managed to...

Finally, a revamped website that is more functional and looks great thanks to some professional...

Below: Aidan landing a Tongariro rainbow troutBack in April, shortly after Aidan turned 16, we...

Since the last updates and since hunting season finished at middle of August, the focus has very...

Northstream Blue Belle (14) & Aidan Luca Olsen (15) with Californian Quail & Brown Quail,...

After a poorer snapper season last year, this summer has fished really well in Northland. Aidan...

Two months into the 2017 hunting season we went back to Norway for six weeks. There we had a nice...

Another year went where hunting season passed into spring and summer, with fishing & diving....

We're into the last remnants of summer in New Zealand. A lot of time Aidan and I have spent...

The Great Barrier Reef is situated off the coast of Queensland, in relatively shallow waters...

Summer has moved into Autumn and for us that means the fishing and diving change into more focus...

We're back in New Zealand after having spent a year traveling in Europe. Naturally, a lot of that...

I am writing these updates from a restored old farm house in the Saône-et-Loire department of...

Sunrise at Ocean Beach with Moulin in a frame from the film "Instinct", shot in 2003 when she was...

John Dory for dinner!The sights and smells of summer..Finnefupster digging into some late night...

Another New Zealand hunting season gone, from the first Saturday in May to the last Sunday in...

On a recent trip to Queenstown in the southern part of NZ I was thinking about what incredible...

EDIT: Since I wrote the piece below Aidan got into spearfishing big time. We both use spearguns...

We spent the entire month of July back home in North Norway. For once I didn't time a trip back...

I have been football mad from a very early age. Seriously addicted. When I lived in Norway I...

Various pics from boys' weekends August 2011 at and around Houhoura in the far north and February...

The 2011 photo-finish we witnessed (above) and legendary Phar Lap winning in 1930...

A few pics from our boys' weekend January 15th/16th 2011 Aidan Ho, Ben Gray, Craig Wells, Chris...

In August we took the trip over to Brisbane, Australia catching up with Hayley's sister Melanie,...

The annual Paradise Shelduck hunt in the last weekend of February has just been. As tradition has...

Ten years ago, we celebrated the new millennium in the far north, with lots of fishing and diving....

Working with classic bird dogs I've always been fascinated by birds of prey. This is an ancient...

The Autumn season started well in Norway for the Barentsvidda dogs, which pleases me almost as if...

The New Zealand hunting season ended last weekend. As always I thoroughly enjoyed being out under...

Welcome to a new version of my website. Most of the information from the old pages can still be...