Posts by Hilary Stace
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Motor camp family
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This is where I was sitting.
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Sad to hear that Kawhia is in the news for a violent incident involving an attack on the local police officer. But I suppose such communities are microcosms of bigger places. We came across that policeman last week. It was a hot still day and I was sitting by the sea reading my book and a ute pulled up outside the nearby unit. A woman got out yelling at the male driver and the world in general. How could you be so angry in such a beautiful peaceful place, was my initial reaction. Hard to know what to do in such a situation - not in the motor camp rules. So I did the usual thing of ignoring it all and finding a quieter place to read. Not long after a couple of police vehicles arrived, and several people including that cop - laid back but efficient, as imagine country cops should be. Later campers and cops and the woman in the back seat waved at each other as the car drove away. (Apparently it was a 'mental health issue'.)
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Duck pond with floating white globes and reflections (the hanging globes were pink but only in the reflection can you see the colour). I need to practice a bit more night time photography.
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Disco tree with numerous assorted disco balls which are all spinning and scattering light in the dark (this tree is very large and you need to walk into it through overhanging branches). Picture doesn't convey any of the effect. You really have to experience it.
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The Wellington Botanic gardens has its evening concert and light show on at the moment. There are large changing coloured globes hanging over the duckpond and many tall trees are spectacularly underlit. Particularly effective also for the pathway of magnolias with their old twisty boughs.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
We drove around Aotea harbour on the windy and dusty gravel road to Raglan. Very pretty and little evidence of actual people. Lots of native bush though all around that area. Not that much retail in Kawhia either. One of our party had supermarket and cafe withdrawal and was pleased to find both in Raglan. Here is Raglan beach from above.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
On our last day there were about 20 children climbing and jumping. A couple of the smallest children had been completely covered in the local black mud head to toe by some of the older girls. Looked like really cute sculptures (although it might not sound like it). But no camera. A woman nearby had hers and was going to send her photo to the Herald.
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Kawhia wharf
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Tide out
