Posts by BenWilson
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Gah, wrong thread!!
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Pic 1. Where I've been playing for a few days. Hekerua Bay, on the right, just around the coast from Oneroa. Not accessible by road, we take a cliff track from the beach on the left, Sandy Bay. Good exercise, particularly laden with baggage. Between the two, Skeleton Bay, accessible only by walking around the rocks. This body of water you see is where I learned to swim, snorkel, row, kayak, dive, fish, etc. My family have been coming here since the 70s.
Pic 2. Speaking of diving, directly below where I took the first shot, a piece of local knowledge, a perfect natural diving platform for the brave. This shot taken from the bach, about 500m away. One boy leaps from the highest point, his mates are climbing up the ramp for more. They climbed around the rocks to get there.
Pic 3. The launch point taken from a dingy directly below it. Near high tide. At low tide, add 2 meters, and the fact you can see straight to the bottom, and the rocks are covered in oysters, for knee knocking goodness when standing at the top.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I could hear this one being done from my house (I think). More like 1am.
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At about 20m, this looks like a closeup. Been playing with my Christmas present, a decent tripod.
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More bogan art. This set of patches tells a whole story:
Pic 1, You can see where the patch begins, two parallel lines. The rest of it, barring one pair (last pic) is a continuous sweep, the absence of parallel lines suggesting most of the loss of traction being the outside tyres only, culminating in a total loss of control going off the road, which explains the starting point of the next one in,
Pic 2, The initial point is on a grating crossing a concrete driveway. It is fairly clear which wins in a battle between rubber and steel. That's about an inch of caramelized rubber in every hole. Beyond you can see a dangling strip of rubber, these were hanging down like drapes under the grating.
Pic 3, Presumably this level of traction launched them so hard they opted not to spin around, but to go for the long patch. Around 70m.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
a triskelion made by a trike-rapscallion?
I'm reliably informed it's also a symbol used by BDSM peeps. I never knew.
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This shot gave me a buzz. In the museum shop.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Lilith __,
But why...
Well the area seems to be well bird shitted, so it's possibly a "scarecrow" of sorts. Although I understood that owls actually infuriated, rather than scared, other birds, so perhaps that explains all the poop.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Jos,
Yes, it was hard to find a stylized snakey patch.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Russell Brown,
This should be a thing.
Not the self portraits :-)
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