Waitakere
Although we’ve had a bit of rain since this was taken things are still pretty dry. Auckland’s long hot summer can be seen in the form of stressed, some dead, trees and not much water in this pond. Although it is for storm water I haven’t ever
Auckland
I don’t know why but traffic lights on the Shore seem to have the worst phasing of any in Auckland. You rock up to a light and it goes red, no other traffic in sight, wait, wait, wait, here comes a car, their light goes red… and I get
Auckland
I passed a Speed, sorry I meant Road Safety, Camera van on the way home last night. It was policing an arrow straight 100 km/h limit motorway section on a fine sunny evening. I presume it was set to nab those doing 5–10 km/h over the limit
Until recently this was a boring raw concrete bridge pylon seen from the bike path which connects Henderson to the Corban Estate Arts Centre. This is a collection of iPhone 3GS snapshots stitched together in a click by Microsoft Live Photo “Panorama” tool.
Posts and photos from a 10-day cycle tour around Northland, New Zealand
An Auckland Meetup
Auckland
I’ve been trying the TOMTOM traffic and finding it pretty useful but when the nice lady says: “The delay on your route is nineteen minutes, You are still on the quickest route” I wonder if ignorance actually is bliss
Automobile
I wonder why there is about 650 metres of “open road” (100km/h) on ramp between 50km/h Onewa Rd and the 80km/h zone approaching the Harbour Bridge? 1. I join the on ramp from Sylvan Avenue. 2. About 150 metres (estimated) along the on ramp a sign indicates
Henderson Park is tucked away off Henderson Valley Road. Its not far from West City Mall but doesn’t seem to attract the same crowds. Walk along the cycle/pedestrian path to Palomino Drive, cross over the bridge (to the Swanson side of the creek) and you can return down
I’m not a “foodie” but, inspired by Flickr friend Sandy’s food photographs & comments, decided to snap and blog about some of the great food,events & venues I encounter.The first is: The Falls Restaurant - Café - Gallery Mention fine dining and I suspect many Aucklanders
Is it worth moving to Wellington, just to BACK JACK? I love point three in his post as it seems to sum up the national, actually the National, economic strategy: 3. You can keep praying that the Rugby World Cup will give a temporary boost and hope no one notices
Ok, so the Paritai Drive location is supposedly Auckland’s best street and the thing covers several normal sections. The land alone would be worth a fortune, maybe ten million, but is this really the best house you can get for Thirty Million? I were spending that much I would