{"id":416,"date":"2007-10-01T00:07:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T00:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2007\/10\/01\/bode-cave\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:11","slug":"bode-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2007\/bode-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Bode Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our uber awesome, wonderful and truly incredible professional ice hockey coach Jenel Bode is leaving \ud83d\ude41 Hopefully she&#8217;ll be back next year though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/longbeachryanandbode11.jpg\" title=\"Ryan McMillan and Jenel Bode inside the cave at Longbeach\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/longbeachryanandbode11.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Rhyan McMillan and Jenel Bode inside the cave at Longbeach\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> Rhyan McMillan and our uber awesome coach Jenel Bode<\/p>\n<p>For her goodbye bash, she organised a goodbye party in a cave at Longbeach. It sounded boring, getting stuck in a cave all evening on a cold, wet, rainy day \ud83d\ude41 Luckilly Sarah was heading out to take Jane so I hitched a ride along so I could make an appearance and bail home early with Sarah. Darn glad I went though, coz it was totally awesome. The cave was wicked, the fire kept us all cosy warm, everyone had fun and there was loads of entertainment provided by my teammates who provided firebreathing, guitar and flame throwing demonstrations for us all. There were even baby blue penguins in the back of the cave hanging out with us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neilandrobflames2.jpg\" title=\"Neil Dudley and Rob Owens waving fire #1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neilandrobflames2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Dudley and Rob Owens waving fire #1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Neil Dudley and Rob Owens demonstrating how much effort it takes to burn human skin <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/10\/longbeachneilfire.jpg\" title=\"Neil Dudley pretending to be a dragon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/10\/longbeachneilfire.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Dudley pretending to be a dragon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Neil Dudley pretending to be a dragon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/longbeachsarahandjane1.jpg\" title=\"Sarah MacDonald and Jane Soper inside the cave at Longbeach\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/longbeachsarahandjane1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah MacDonald and Jane Soper inside the cave at Longbeach\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sarah MacDonald stumming on the guitar, Jane Soper sipping on her vodka and chocolate thingy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neildudleyfirebreathing.jpg\" title=\"Neil Dudley breathing fire\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neildudleyfirebreathing.jpg\" title=\"Neil Dudley breathing fire\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neildudleyfirebreathing.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Dudley breathing fire\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Neil Dudley trying to set himself on fire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/firelongbeach1.jpg\" title=\"Fire in the cave at Long Beach\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/firelongbeach1.jpg\" title=\"Fire in the cave at Long Beach\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/firelongbeach1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Fire in the cave at Long Beach\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The bonfire, Chris Laing in the background providing some music on his guitar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/longbeachshereesusan.jpg\" title=\"Sheree Haslemore and Susan Green at Long Beach\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/longbeachshereesusan.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sheree Haslemore and Susan Green at Long Beach\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Bajeeze, two scary looking women! Thankfully they&#8217;re normally quite beautiful. The Beasts arch nemesis is on the left (she keeps scoring goals on us) Sheree Haslemore and ex Dunedinite Susan Green is baring her teeth on the right<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neilandrobflames.jpg\" title=\"Neil Dudley and Rob Owens waving fire #2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/neilandrobflames.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Dudley and Rob Owens waving fire #2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Neil Dudley and Rob Owens lighting up the cave<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/10\/longbeachtriryan.jpg\" title=\"Three Ryans in one photo! Ryan Hellyer, Ryan McMillan and Ryan Wick\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/10\/longbeachtriryan.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Three Ryans in one photo! Ryan Hellyer, Rhyan McMillan and Ryan Wick\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ryan sandwich? From left: Ryan Hellyer (moi), <a href=\"http:\/\/bebo.com\/RhyanM4\" title=\"Ryan McMillan's Bebo profile\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyan McMillan<\/a> and Ryan Wick.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Stupidly I didn&#8217;t think to take a camera, so thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gone2nz.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/trip-to-nz.html\" title=\"Jenel Bode's blog\" target=\"_blank\">Jenel Bode<\/a>, Susan Green and <a href=\"http:\/\/bebo.com\/RhyanM4\" title=\"Ryan McMillan's Bebo profile\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyan McMillan<\/a> for the photos \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our uber awesome, wonderful and truly incredible professional ice hockey coach Jenel Bode is leaving \ud83d\ude41 Hopefully she&#8217;ll be back next year though \ud83d\ude42 Rhyan McMillan and our uber awesome coach Jenel Bode For her goodbye bash, she organised a goodbye party in a cave at Longbeach. 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