Capture: Coast to Coast
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Here’s some corrosion for you…
:- )Hi Ian, a catchy track! I find it remininscent of Bowie. And nice to find a link on their website to Amnesty International. One doesn’t hear much of that group these days but they continue their essential Human Rights work, no doubt mostly viley unpleasant, helping protect us from each other.
We have another rainy day here in Dunedin. The sea is flatish and grey and the horizon fuzzy with rain. No walks on the beach this morning. Birds, parents and children clearly, are crowding the food I’ve put out for them on the balcony railing.
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I would like to add that yesterday Dunedin wound up with some of the freakiest weather I seen in a long time here. A quarter of an hour continuous thunder and lightening is very abnormal. I didn't manage to get any of the lightening on camera though.
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
So that’s where the lightening was! South of the city we certainly heard the continuous rolling thunder but didn’t see any flashes. I went out in the mizzle and sunny evening while it was still thundering and took over a hundred photos. I’ll post some of them here. A fuller selection of that dramatic hour before sunset can be found in my blog post "A solitary Christmas Eve ~ and a special one". Scroll down past all the music clips to see the pics.
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The drama of the anti-crepuscular rays within the rainbow can be seen in this one. It hasn't reduced in size all that well, but it gives an idea of its magnificence. Click on the image to see it bigger.
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Every part of the sky was doing something different and the whole thing was changing moment by moment…
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...And a post-storm salute to the last light of the day...
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Strange Christmas visitation. Two families of ducks, one older, one younger. The elder ones came to the door.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Looking for their relative, who was warming in your oven?
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Two families of ducks
Avoiding being served with pancakes and hoisin sauce?
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Leigh Russell, in reply to
Dear me, speaking for myself, I do not eat my friends or even think of it! And lest you think me hypocritical, I am a vegetarian! Adorable little people. We used to live near a community of them who loved to visit and pass the time of day. Have you ever felt their feet? They are surprisingly soft and their little claws sharp, enabling them to climb slippery banks. The sound that ducklings make always seems so like the sounds of the streams in which they live – little piping sounds – delightful.
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Different days at the Chev …
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Different days at the Chev …
#s 2 and 3 are brilliant!
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Lilith __, in reply to
Different days at the Chev …
Oh lovely, Russell! So Auckland. :-)
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I would like to add that yesterday Dunedin wound up with some of the freakiest weather I seen in a long time here. A quarter of an hour continuous thunder and lightening is very abnormal. I didn’t manage to get any of the lightening on camera though.
We apparently landed through that storm on the flight down from Wellington on Xmas Eve. Everyone when we got off was talking about it, but didn't even notice it on the plane.
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Without the intention of sparking a debate, this may be a good place to post the latest Auckland Council beach reports.
If you read this, you’d think, as Russell pointed out elsewhere, most of Auckland beaches are sweet, including the favourite Pt Chev above. Watching 3 News last night you’d think otherwise.
In any case there are plenty of beaches within 40 mins of Auckland CBD to safely enjoy, and take photos of. :-)
Manly beach above being one of them.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Quizzmass quackers?
The elder ones came to the door.
They must've intuited that you're web-friendly...
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
The birds seemed to have the run of the city yesterday. Even this cat was sharing his christmas nibbles.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Without the intention of sparking a debate, this may be a good place to post the latest Auckland Council beach reports.
If you read this, you’d think, as Russell pointed out elsewhere, most of Auckland beaches are sweet, including the favourite Pt Chev above. Watching 3 News last night you’d think otherwise.
That 3 News story was such crap. Three of the four "unsafe" beaches are marked as permanently unsafe due to historical contamination -- including Cox's Bay and Meola Reef. No one ever swims at them.
The only place marked unsafe in the latest monitoring was the lagoon at Little Oneroa on Waiheke -- presumably because of the seasonal holiday-home influx. The current beach report is actually a good one. Only one very small area failed! But 3 News made it sound like the opposite.
It's also pretty dubious jamming the Auckland Council report together with the figure one-in-three-beaches-nationwide that can be prone to contamination. I think most of those are in regional places where the rating base isn't big enough to support a decent sewerage infrastructure. Auckland, by contrast, has spent the latest 20 years remediating problems.
I dunno, journalists ...
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JacksonP, in reply to
Little Oneroa on Waiheke – presumably because of the seasonal holiday-home influx.
With the added outgoings of seasonal boats moored in the bay.
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Sacha, in reply to
bobbing in the bay
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This is from 2009, on the track to second beach, Dunedin, looking down the cliff
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North of Greymouth
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Animals at the beach a) horses b) Southern Right Whale
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Lilith __, in reply to
horses
Car before the horses!? Odd.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Car before the horses!? Odd.
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure that one out, too. Is it some kind of training exercise? Seems a bit mean, but there must be some logic to it.
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