Hi there!
Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Donna, AKA The Upside Down Kiwi-Bard (UDK_Bard). I was nicknamed the Upside Down Kiwi by a Canadian friend of mine in year 2000 while on holiday in Los Angeles for an Earth 2 convention. I decided I liked it...
This website is probably never going to be very flashy or complicated, it's just that I wanted to put some stuff online for people to see so I threw this page together as a place to put everything.
Well here goes...
My late Partner Carrie and I had the privilege of going to the Renaissance Pictures Costume Auction by Turners Auctions back in May 2001. There weren't really any main Character costumes there but they were selling off all of the extras costumes and most of the minor character costumes from Xena, Hercules, Young Hercules, Jack of All Trades, and Cleopatra 2525. We managed to come away with a few neat bits and pieces.
If you'd like to have a look at the items, I've set up two new webpages, Props n Costumes, and T-shirts etc. I was going to sell off some of the stuff but never got around to it.
On Sunday, January 27th 2002, Carrie, myself and our friend Leigh took a trip out to a couple of Xena filming sites. Leigh brought along her digital camera so we thought we'd share the experience with other Xenites. For your viewing pleasure, may we present...
Waiti Stream and "Big Mama" Sand Dune. (Nicknamed by a previous Xenite visitor, if I could remember the website, I'd link to it to give the owner the credit)
And Bethell's Beach.
Also, Leigh happened to go past Little Shoal Bay in Auckland a while ago and spotted the ship from "Friend in Need". She was kind enough to email me some pics of that as well. Sadly the ship was sold and turned into someone's houseboat. It lived in Auckland's Harbout for a while, looking honestly pretty ugly with a big living area built in the middle of the deck. It disappeared after a year or so.
Updated: May 24th 2009
Another very recognisable Xena film site that not many people seem to know about is Hunua Falls. As far as I know it was used in only one episode... but it's a popular one. Check it out! :)
Questions / Comments / suggestions will be welcome at udk_bard@orcon.net.nz - no flames please.
I'll add more stuff to this page whenever I think of anything to add.