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This is Pirate Petes 'other' home page [The first one got more or less lost in translation between google pagemaker and google sites - not necessarily a bad thing as evil Russians were using the good domain name of 'Piratepetester' for a virally transmitting porn site]. Rest easy, this is a salient repeat of the index to some of the gonzo journalism/blog - like accounts of what the pirate has been up to
Who the hell is Pirate Pete?
He's a middle aged, diving, kayaking, boogie boarding, multisporting, boat building, British seagull outboard racing adventurer ... of sorts.
Pete lives in Wellington New Zealand
Ningaloo whale shark, Tantibidi and Rottnest Island snorkelling
Snorkelling with whale sharks in Ningaloo and a trip to Rottnest Island May 2010
The link is to a post trip blogg of my adventures to Western Australia, flying from Perth to Learmount and staying in Exmouth for a week to accompany my 83 year old father snorkelling with whale sharks, followed by a week in Manjura (south of Perth) finishing with a couple of days at Fremantle with a memorable days cycling and snorkelling at Rottnest Island.
Bermuda RISR 2011 - the reprise
Bermuda RISR (Round the Island Seagull Race) 2011 the Reprise - My return to Bermuda to compete in my second RISR. The Ancient one said, "could he come to?" ... and why not. We had the best weather day ever on race day and enjoyed the sights and hospitality of Bermuda with a heavy emphasis on snorkeling. These are the notes I made for Saving old seagulls chronicling our race adventure with links the the absolutely fabulous 2007 Bermuda visit and a picassa folder of photos from the 2011 trip
Kayak fishing trout, Taupo, New Zealand
A long time between drinks. It was 20 long years before I managed to catch a trout in Lake Taupo. After a 6 year respite, I managed to catch 3 trout in 3 days Christmas 2011. A small website chronicling the sorry saga and the break through.
Pirate Pete's seagull outboard race boat tips
Pirate Pete has been hooked on British outboard motor boat racing for a few years now. Starting back in 2009, This site is designed as a 'primer' for anybody wanting to survive the annual Easter seagull race/regatta down the Waikato. A two day adventure covering 88 land miles from the Base of Karapiro Dam to Rangiriri (end of day one) and onto the finish at Hoods Landing, Otaua (end of day two).
https://sites.google.com/site/piratepeteshomepage/Home/the-great-rig-shark-hunt
The great rig hunt of 2011. The task was to take the NIWA 6.8 m Mcklay hardtop research boat and set nets for rig sharks (up to 1.5 m long) in a number of estuaries around the South Island of New Zealand. This site was set up to show colleagues how we cleaned the nets of current borne weed. But with a link to a picassa web album, you can visit some of the shallow estuaries from Otago Harbour to Westhaven (Whanganui) Inlet on the West Coast - just below Farewell Spit.
piratepetester builds a Bateau SK14
Pete's other web site.
Easily found by google searching piratepetester. Note that is all lowercase. Some dirty Russians have used my good name for a shadow porno/virus site. Beware anything with capital 'P' i.e; Piratepetester
The link below is to the genuine piratepetester original [and not Not the Russian porn site ... honest!]: