April, 2023

If you are looking here for veterinary services, I'm sorry to say you need to search further. I hung up my Washington State license, retired and moved to New Zealand in 2017.

That said, I recently started volunteering for Waiheke Native Bird Rescue and have had some veterinary neurons stirred. That plus deciding to share our retirement with a tiny flock of chickens (chooks) has me reading up on matters of an avian medicine nature. Kinda fun to resurrect some memories from my training, and think/plan around stuff other than pickleball!

Pickleball in New Zealand

I became fond of this game in 2014. In NZ, I've enjoyed playing pickleball at various badminton centers, gyms and some outdoor courts. Pickleball began to take off in NZ in 2015. It is now being played at a number of centers, throughout the country. As of May 2020, NZ pickleballers have been enjoying our emergence from the immediate shadow of COVID-19. Fingers crossed this will continue until there is widespread immunity and the whole world comes up for air.

Pickleball Auckland Central - news and where to play in urban Auckland

There is an email discussion list (completely non-commercial, 'bot and spam-free) to coordinate play among Aucklanders. Feel free to join in the conversation:

Pickleball Auckland discussion list

or try the Facebook site, which mirrors much of the discussion list material

Pickleball Auckland Central Facebook group

Pickleball New Zealand web site (has information about where to play throughout the country)

Pickleball in Seattle

Time for pickleball is a great website to keep track.

This site gives times and places for pickleball play in Seattle