White Boats

Doves Bay, Bay of Islands

10am Today. Beautiful.

Jay Jay Update

Nothing like an hour at Memorial Park Tauranga on a sunny Saturday.

Plenty of climbing for Jay

Looks like a Stephen King face! Slightly evil..

Kawera Island

To the north west of Tauranga. Kawera (aka Karewa) Island is an amazing little island.

I have climbed to the top on several occasions (illegal!) but I was young then.

Tuatara, massive centipedes, mutton birds are some of the life I encounted and considering its so close to the mainland it was surprisingly pristine.

I have dived this area extensively. In addition to crayfish hunting you can find a ships boiler on the bottom on the south west side, the remains of a wreck the SS Taranaki on the western side of the island. The SS Taranaki Story

When I dived this wreck over many years I collected a few small momentous. Including coat hangers, china plate fragments, and from the rigging a block and rope. The wreck isn protected now.

this is not a wreck that is visible as an intact ship. The remains are scattered, and the boiler mentioned above is part of it. The remains are flattened into the seabed and over grown with kelp so it takes a keen eye and patience to find it.

Plastic Shaming

Sunlive Headline Today

The moral disgust of being a plastic user

This headline was followed an article designed to make every last one of us on the planet feel guilty about the use of plastics.
The Story
I bet whoever wrote this was using a computer, drove home in a car, bus, train or rode a bike. Got home and turned on the TV while walking on their synthetic carpet....all having high plastic content.
Oh how times have changed. Check the old images out.

On the other hand it is definitely out of control

Mount Landmark

Oceanside Twin Towers Appartments

Built in 1990

They still look amazing.

Glass Towers South Bank Melbourne

Rock Mountains

Across the Tauranga harbour

Center of New Zealand Plus

2016 Nelson

Wow those almost 5 years just flashed past.

And heading up another Nelson hill.

If you want a good walk close to town try the Grampians at the top of Collingwood street.

This is Rob taking a quick breather. The tower is the turn around point.

Water Wheel

Can be seen in Queens Gardens Nelson

Flying

Leaving for distant shores.

Flying over our house right on the bottom edge of Fergusson Park, our backyard now for 35 years.

Always makes me feel a bit, oh here we go again.

Then you bring back a memory like this!

Car tyre size pizzas' in Florida.

Shallow......

Back to the west coast.

 Departing LA for home, yes!

Walk in the door at home and it feels great to be back.

So how did it go? "man they have bloody big pizzas in Miami..."