Bright Water

Main Beach the Mount

 Ships off Rabbit island (Motuotau) Mt Maunganui

Blood News

Science in action.

Surfer. Simpler Days

Checking it out at the Mount

Circa '85/'87

Reverse Engineering

We deconstructed an old Kodak Box Brownie.

I was shocked to see how simple but robust it was. Very impressed.

Jay with the shutter mechanism unit

Early Start

Training or exploring does not get better than this.

Tauranga harbour

Shirt in a window

 Three Hercs. Won't see these for much longer. These taken in mid 80'2

Sulphuric Acid Plant 1983

Mt Maunganui

1983 Port of Tauranga

37 years ago our port had this lonely and somewhat smallish crane.

Based on the mount wharf then.

That was in the black and white days.

This is today!

Based on the container wharf at Tauranga now.

B&W Oldies

Tanks

This is from my old negative collection. Just learning to scan.

I love the look of the old B&W films and the scan seems capable of reproducing them quite well.

Tree and Hut

Random Mt Maunganui Images

Good News After Bad

I know we cringe at the fact that animals we have as pets are on the menu.

Somewhere between 10 million and 20 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed annually in China for food.

They are rethinking the practice by the look of the stats.

All On The Water

Rusty

 Entering Tauranga

 Stormy strange light

 Lovely Doves Bay

Reusing and Greenhouse Gasses

Wow, organic cotton comes out worst!

Not sure about the data on cotton. Do I need to wear my shirt 149 times or is that 149 owners?

Will check.

Family Moment

Ken on my lap!

Would not happen now😁

This must have been before we left Nelson (looks like the old Glenn property)

So I would have been maybe 6 and Ken 1. I am sure the girls will put me right.

Like the Teddy in the dirt face down...

Different Then

Black and white for the children. Paul's younger days

 A small beer is fine....

Jay's Day

Player of the day for great defending AND two goals, you little beauty.

Fergy Park

Last evening over the park

This May Surprise

Daily deaths globally from infectious disease.

The HIV reference was about treatment with bone marrow transplant being successful for the second time.

TB was a disease people in my generation and our parents grew up with and for many years effective treatments were available. I suspect the disease must have become somewhat resistant now.

In Case You Care

'E' Seems to be catching on

One More For Family

Graham and Diane centre couple with Rob and me on the right.

Some time in the 80's. I have no idea what this was all about.

Clearly a drink missing from my hand...

Happy Birthday Robyn

 With her class mates. Second row from back second on right.

They were a great bunch of girls.

 With her mum

 And dad

 Simply pissed

 Her men

Colour Your Days

Something we take for granted. 

Compared to my childhood days we live in an amazingly colourful world, well, in most countries.