Hopefully It's The Beginning Of A Great New Year...

Hopefully it's the beginning of a great new year for all of us.
For Eliana Tim and their children Antonella and Max who are celebrating in their brand new but many years old classic vintage caravan at Uretiti Campground in New Zealand's Northland,
it will be an especially wonderful beginning.
Wishing you a very Happy New Year too...

We've Just Given Birth To A Brand New Year...

Happy New Year!
Congratulations to us!
Let's celebrate! And when we have, let's all take a moment to look at our collective role
as proud new parents.
Are we going to nourish and care for this year as it wends it's way through its twelve month life cycle or are we going to shirk our responsibilities yet again. Are we going to let this year see more wars and injustices, loss of lives and shattered human dignity. Are we going to allow the innocents to suffer as we have done in the past. Are we going to go on our way selfishly not caring about our fellow human beings while we crave for more of this and more of that or are we going to share the milk of human kindness and give of ourselves to others less fortunate...

Welcome To The New Year...

Welcome to 2013.
I'm at perhaps my favouritist place on this planet. Freedom Camping at the beautiful Tokerau Beach in New Zealand's Far North.
The sun is shining. The fish are biting.
What more could any man want.
All I need is enough and enough is what I have.
Happy New Year.
I hope 2013 is a wonderful year for you all...

The Sun Goes Down On The Year That Was...

2012 was a year when, according to some,
the world was going to end. And for some, it did.
Some of us consider any day spent above ground and breathing a good one.
Some days are better than others but
all of them are damned good as far as I'm concerned and I'm thankful for all of them.
To all of you who've been following
The Flying Tortoise, thankyou for being aboard.
It's been a delight and a pleasure to post material that I've hoped would entertain, inform, amuse and inspire over the past year...