Nice shots!
Local photos
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evangilder
"Shooter"
One heck of a sunrise to see! Nicely captured. 
wheelsup_cavu
1st Sergeant
Beautiul pictures. 
Wheels
Wheels
mudpuppy
Senior Airman
Wonderful pics, you have a beautiful homeland.
Deskpilot
Airman
Enough Of New Zealand, here's a bit of my locale in South Australia, GOD'S COUNTRY
Sorry about the quality but, el cheapo camera.
https://picasaweb.google.com/112139417225183937781/RiverFlight?authkey=Gv1sRgCMWy8NzN57bnDA
Sorry about the quality but, el cheapo camera.
https://picasaweb.google.com/112139417225183937781/RiverFlight?authkey=Gv1sRgCMWy8NzN57bnDA
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Great pictures of your country side and family nuuumannn, looks like a lovely even if remote part of the South Island. I was interested to see your picture of the War Memorial and the location in which Private Ham died. I'm assuming it was Ismailia in Egypt, a place I often visited as a child with my parents when he was stationed in Egypt prior to the Suez crisis.
Nice to know you are back at work even if only part time, back problems can be so problematic and painful. I take it with the picture of the couple of Dash 8s, you must work on aircraft and possibly for Air New Zealand.
Those early morning shots are just great, but for goodnes sake, kill the chuck!!!!!!!!!!
Nice to know you are back at work even if only part time, back problems can be so problematic and painful. I take it with the picture of the couple of Dash 8s, you must work on aircraft and possibly for Air New Zealand.
Those early morning shots are just great, but for goodnes sake, kill the chuck!!!!!!!!!!
fubar57
General
Great pictures guys
Geo
Geo
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- #28
Hi Vic, regarding Pvt Ham, when I first visited the memorial I knew nothing about him, but I've done a bit of searching and he is buried in the war memorial cemetery in Ismailia, as you suspected. His full name was William Arthur Ham of the Canterbury Regiment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force that sailed to Egypt on the ANZAC Convoy; he died of injuries after attack in the Suez Canal area on 5 February 1915. He is often listed as being a local of Motueka, the nearest town to us about 15 miles away, but was from Ngatimoti.
As for the chook, yep. need to get the blasted chainsaw out! Only thing is, we have a great relationship with our neighbour - that might suffer if they found out we killed their rooster! The water pistol sems to be working!
Work wise, I'm a line maintenance engineer with Air New Zealand domestic subsidiary Air Nelson, which operates 23 Q300s. That's our hangar at Nelson Airport. Us linies only work nights.
Cheers!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Keep posting pics like that and you might end up with a number of us visiting you!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Even though I do live in a great place myself, I tend to agree with you David and thanks for that explanation nuuumannn.
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- #31
Well, Howdy again folks; we recently played host to friends of ours from the UK who are traveling around New Zealand, so we thought we'd take them to some local sights. First up, the Nelson Lakes. These are situated about an hour and a half's drive from our place and are a busy tourist spot in the summer season. The local town is called St Arnaud and it gets mobbed by campervans and midges, or sandflies, that eat you alive if you're not careful. Luckily it's winter and it's quite chilly, so no midges or campervans.
This is Rotoiti, or Small lake. Even in summer the water is a bit baltic; on a previous visit we went swimming, but not this time.
Note the "No Fishing" sign.
The lake is inhabited by giant eels, which are quite friendly.
Lots of 'em.
The duck lends scale. They average a metre in length.
My daughter eel spotting.
Although you can't fish for them here, they also live in the river down from mine and our neighbour has brought smoked eel over that he's caught. Very tasty!
This is Rotoroa, or Long Lake. Not so well populated by tourists; it's about a half hour drive away from Rotoiti, but picturesque nevertheless.
The next day we took the girls over Takaka Hill into the upper Tasman region. It's about two hours drive north of us. This panoramic view is taken from near the top of Takaka Hill at around 3,000 ft and looks north west into the Kahurangi National Park and over towards Golden Bay in the distance. In the late 60s and early 70s a lot of communes were set up in the area and some of the 'New Age' types have stayed on. It's no surprise that Police helicopters often patrol the hills around these parts for non-native foliage that can only be seen from up high...
Just outside of the town of Takaka is the Waikoropupu spring. In the days of yore it used to be a gold mine, but has been preserved since its waters, according to the blurb, are the second clearest in the world. Although it says not to touch the water, I couldn't resist dipping my hands in and taking a sip. The depth of the spring is 3 metres in parts and is so clear, the bottom looks only feet away.
Originally I wanted to take the picture with my daughter running away down the path with the sign in the foreground, but my wife said it was tempting fate too much, so I settled for this...
This rather imposing monolith is the Abel Tasman Memorial at the southern edge of Golden Bay, the place where Tasman first encountered New Zealand. When he first got here, he had an unfortunate meeting with the natives, whose aggressive behaviour frightened the Dutchman away, so he didn't stay long. Thing was, the natives weren't being aggressive, just their way of saying hello is dancing about in formation and waving what looks to a weary European sailor to be a weapon of war about vigorously!
The plaque at the base of the monument.
The southern edge of Golden Bay. Named after a gold rush back in the late 1800s, the name is still appropriate as land prices are very high here. A number of international celebs have homes out this way, including Shania Twain. Apparently Lee Atwood of North American Aviation was a keen huntin' shootin' fishin' kinda guy and regularly visited New Zealand.
Golden Bay looking north. At the farthest spit of land is Cape Farewell, a 15 mile sand spit off which the very first mine field in New Zealand waters was laid. This was done by the German Commerce raider Wolf in 1917. Wolf's voyage was quite a tale; the ship was the first to carry a seaplane (a Friedrichshafen FF 33E, in case you're wondering) and sank a huge amount of tonnage. Anyhoo, only recently was the last time that one of Wolf's mines washed ashore, in either 2006 or 2008, if I can remember correctly.
We really like this area and haven't done much exploring, but we are going to. What tends to keep tourists away is the rather steep and wyndy drive up Takaka Hill, but it's really not that bad. We want to go tramping along Farewell Spit in the near future. I'll keep you posted.
This is Rotoiti, or Small lake. Even in summer the water is a bit baltic; on a previous visit we went swimming, but not this time.
Note the "No Fishing" sign.
The lake is inhabited by giant eels, which are quite friendly.
Lots of 'em.
The duck lends scale. They average a metre in length.
My daughter eel spotting.
Although you can't fish for them here, they also live in the river down from mine and our neighbour has brought smoked eel over that he's caught. Very tasty!
This is Rotoroa, or Long Lake. Not so well populated by tourists; it's about a half hour drive away from Rotoiti, but picturesque nevertheless.
The next day we took the girls over Takaka Hill into the upper Tasman region. It's about two hours drive north of us. This panoramic view is taken from near the top of Takaka Hill at around 3,000 ft and looks north west into the Kahurangi National Park and over towards Golden Bay in the distance. In the late 60s and early 70s a lot of communes were set up in the area and some of the 'New Age' types have stayed on. It's no surprise that Police helicopters often patrol the hills around these parts for non-native foliage that can only be seen from up high...
Just outside of the town of Takaka is the Waikoropupu spring. In the days of yore it used to be a gold mine, but has been preserved since its waters, according to the blurb, are the second clearest in the world. Although it says not to touch the water, I couldn't resist dipping my hands in and taking a sip. The depth of the spring is 3 metres in parts and is so clear, the bottom looks only feet away.
Originally I wanted to take the picture with my daughter running away down the path with the sign in the foreground, but my wife said it was tempting fate too much, so I settled for this...
This rather imposing monolith is the Abel Tasman Memorial at the southern edge of Golden Bay, the place where Tasman first encountered New Zealand. When he first got here, he had an unfortunate meeting with the natives, whose aggressive behaviour frightened the Dutchman away, so he didn't stay long. Thing was, the natives weren't being aggressive, just their way of saying hello is dancing about in formation and waving what looks to a weary European sailor to be a weapon of war about vigorously!
The plaque at the base of the monument.
The southern edge of Golden Bay. Named after a gold rush back in the late 1800s, the name is still appropriate as land prices are very high here. A number of international celebs have homes out this way, including Shania Twain. Apparently Lee Atwood of North American Aviation was a keen huntin' shootin' fishin' kinda guy and regularly visited New Zealand.
Golden Bay looking north. At the farthest spit of land is Cape Farewell, a 15 mile sand spit off which the very first mine field in New Zealand waters was laid. This was done by the German Commerce raider Wolf in 1917. Wolf's voyage was quite a tale; the ship was the first to carry a seaplane (a Friedrichshafen FF 33E, in case you're wondering) and sank a huge amount of tonnage. Anyhoo, only recently was the last time that one of Wolf's mines washed ashore, in either 2006 or 2008, if I can remember correctly.
We really like this area and haven't done much exploring, but we are going to. What tends to keep tourists away is the rather steep and wyndy drive up Takaka Hill, but it's really not that bad. We want to go tramping along Farewell Spit in the near future. I'll keep you posted.
A4K
Brigadier General
Fantastic photos mate... makes me homesick...
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Very well captured Geo! You have some very nice scenery up in that part of the world sir!
You have some very nice scenery up in that part of the world sir!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Beautiful!
Good shots!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Wow, gorgeous!
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Incredible scenery!
Florence
Senior Airman
The land of the long white cloud...
have to visit one day.
Gorgeous scenery.
have to visit one day.
Gorgeous scenery.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Love'em all, fantastic scenery.
Excellent pics!
