Wow - thanks guys for the great welcome!
Plus I am really stunned that I am the first NZer.... they don't know what they are missing!! I have been lurking this website for quite a while and then thought it was about time I made myself known.
Julie - yes you are correct, our Championship water trials are birds retrieved across water, not from water. At club trials you will get variations but as we don't get to retrieve from water, very few trials will have this.
I am coming over and staying with Sue Grant (SA), attending the Easter Trials, seeing a bit of the country and finishing up with Sue and Laraine Frawley at the GR National in Sydney at the beginning of May. I attended a field trial in Seattle in 1998 (GRCA National) and am really looking forward to seeing how the Australians run theirs... (field and Specialty).
Better go - got work to do but I will be back
Cheers
K.