Public Address | Cafe | Field Theory: The Black Sand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Clive Candy https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233510#post233510 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233510#post233510 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:19:51 +1300 Angus Robertson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233469#post233469 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233469#post233469 It's kinda ironic that the whole high-carbon beach house/4WD/powerboat lifecycle that many NZers aspire to inevitably fucks up the same environment they're enjoying.

The shiny X3 charging along a yellow sanded beach in the mid-post advert might not be the best spot BMW could have chosen.

]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:09:52 +1300 hamishm https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233382#post233382 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233382#post233382 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:03:00 +1300 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233380#post233380 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233380#post233380 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:55:41 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233375#post233375 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233375#post233375 I've been getting reports from my bro-in-law at Maketu, where he's helping with the clean-up. Pretty dispiriting stuff.

The godwits had just arrived back at the estuary a week or so before the Rena ran aground. Among them, the famous E7 (who was tracked a few years ago as the…

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:36:35 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233344#post233344 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233344#post233344 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:08:39 +1300 merc https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233340#post233340 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233340#post233340 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:01:25 +1300 executivebonus https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233328#post233328 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233328#post233328 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:54:29 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233321#post233321 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233321#post233321 Maketu estuary is special to me. I learned to swim there and dived off the board mid-current with the sun on my back. We ate kaimoana from it all year. It's my awa.

I grasped the sadness and anger from locals of that coast as soon as I saw it…

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:40:15 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233318#post233318 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233318#post233318 annexing pollen land…
Take your sinuses to Arizona.
…the perils of a not so good wind…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quKcG0cXXpI
a little known result of the future Balkanising of America
(where they don’t know sh*t from Sedona ) is that
Arizona will become Aridndristan…

that being of course before people moved there with…

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:39:07 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233314#post233314 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233314#post233314 until lots of other people had the same idea.

Yes I often think of the ol' sayin' Take your sinuses to Arizona. that being of course before people moved there with their flowers.

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:25:32 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233311#post233311 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233311#post233311 writ (not so) large...
Less impressive the scruffier “NO Mining John” a mere 3-5 metres, ambiguous without a comma of course so I have to feel ambivalent, but perhaps clear enough in the context.
I think this sand tagger might also work doing captions
on the Stuff website:
Debris covered…

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:14:35 +1300 Tamsin6 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233309#post233309 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233309#post233309 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:06:41 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233303#post233303 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233303#post233303 Moral of the story: be careful what you wish for, because you might actually get it. ]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:38:54 +1300 ChrisW https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233302#post233302 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233302#post233302 Some rather clever person had written huge letters in the sand spelling out “Clean Me”.Where "huge" = ~24 metres high, impressively neat lettering too! Less impressive the scruffier "NO Mining John" a mere 3-5 metres, ambiguous without a comma of course so I have to feel ambivalent, but perhaps clear… ]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:35:49 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233282#post233282 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233282#post233282 Aw geez, dude. This hadn't really touched me emotionally until that.

True. Hadyn put a lot of himself into this, which makes it hit home even harder.

I spent a few summers at Mt Maunganui as a child, so it also has a special place in my heart. Eventually the…

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:27:05 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233273#post233273 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233273#post233273 Aue Hayden!

I am a beach person. I've lived most of my life by/on beaches. North Beach. Moeraki. Okarito. And other beaches are also important – Colac Bay & all those around Rakiura & Otago.

We have rimurapa (bull-kelp) diseased from oceanic pollution in the south. We have proposals to drill for…

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:30:50 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233265#post233265 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233265#post233265 It’s kinda ironic that the whole high-carbon beach house/4WD/powerboat lifecycle that many NZers aspire to inevitably fucks up the same environment they’re enjoying.

I believe that such a phenomenon is called the tragedy of the commons.

For much the same reasons as above, people thought they could have their own…

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:13:29 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233259#post233259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233259#post233259 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:55:49 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233257#post233257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233257#post233257 When I was a kid in England people would pack solvent for tar on clothes as part of the standard kit to go to the beach. (this was after the Torrey Canyon wreck, plus ships would pump their bilges and pollute the sea with oil).

That ship had maybe 2000…

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:47:30 +1300 Karen White https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233253#post233253 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233253#post233253 I have spent a lot of time at that beach

Me too. Was a lifegueard there for years & have whanau over on Matakana Island still.
This whole situation makes me so angry and sad.

]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:28:52 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233225#post233225 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233225#post233225 I have spent a lot of time at that beach, I got attacked by a dog there as a child, I got stoned in the dunes as a teenager and, well, other things too. I spent eighteen years of my life in that area before moving away for uni, this… ]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:48:03 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233224#post233224 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/field-theory-the-black-sand/?p=233224#post233224 Discussion from blog post.

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