Auckland Prelims ~ Northland Sojourn 2012 Day 1
An Auckland Meetup
New Zealand Google Maps (and Earth) get Traffic!
There aren’t many people in New Zealand but we have more cars/head than most (~2.5 million cars/4 million people). Then consider not far off half the population live in one city and it is squeezed onto a narrow isthmus between two harbours*. So we do have
New Zealand
Register to see Autodesk’s “Lead The Way” Virtual Event, while I’m on my bike!
In late March I’m off to tour Northland — the north of NZ’s North Island — with a bunch of similarly crazy cyclists. Ten days of cycling a mainly coastal circuit around the beautiful Northland scenery. I just hope some summer weather we haven’t had yet arrives really late!
Comedy
New Zealand WHAKA* YEAH!
What two OE “Kiwi fullas” stuck in Australia made to try and win a ticket home for the Rugby World Cup: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLETRsaL8DA&w=560&h=345] And it worked although means they are returning on “The great crusade” Aussie Wallabies Supporters
Comedy
Kiwi humour meets celebrity - Ben Boyce from WANNA-Ben
Ben Boyce decides he want to be… A rock star, stuntman, superstar actor, rapper or whatever then goes & interviews real ones to find out how. These are the highlights from WANNA-Ben, the full interviews are on his WANNA-BenTV YouTube Channel [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm7TRGO5JAg&
New Zealand
Stats Chat – What do those statistics mean?
Discusses the reality of of statistics used, and use, in the media Stats Chat - www.statschat.org.nz "Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." – H.G. Wells Hosted by The University of Auckland's
Politics
Sir Paul Callaghan, should be Prime Minister
I cant embed this video but click the link to see why this man should be running New Zealand. From his Bio on sustainablefuture.info Sir Paul Callaghan (GNZM, FRS, FRSNZ) is Kiwibank’s 2011 New Zealander of the year, for his service to science in the fields of nanotechnology
Adventure South
Adventure South on Getaway, memorable because I did!
I haven’t done the “Alps to Ocean” route shown here but have ridden many of these roads on various Adventure South tours. It’s only a short clip but brings back memories of awesome trips, road/lakeside lunches (and the bus carrying all your kit!). [youtube=http://www.youtube.
The West Coast Penguin Mystery?
Back in 2006 I took a photo of this rather unique road sign on the South Island’s West Coast. This year (in somewhat better weather) I couldn’t resist taking the same photo again. It wasn’t until I got home that I noticed “next 10km” of penguin in
Adventure South
Coast To Coast 2011 — New Zealand South Island Cycle Trip
I recently spent ten days in the South Island on a fabulous cycle tour from Christchurch over to the West Coast (Punakaiki to Karamea), Abel Tasman Park, Nelson Lakes, Picton & Kaikoura with Adventure South Cycle Tours. How quickly the daily grind returns, not helped by the end of daylight
Coast To Coast 2011 - Let the great photo upload begin!
Away ten days, only six hundred & forty photos... UPDATE 2011-04-02: The 2011 Coast to Coast photoset, now only 609 photos after a bit of culling, is here: 2011-03 | Adventure South Coast to CoastChristchurch, West Coast from Punakaiki to Karamea, Abel Tasman, Nelson Lakes, Picton & Kaikoura with Adventure
Coast to Coast 10 - Kaikōura to Christchurch
I had a lazy start to the day while some of the others were up before dawn to swim with dolphins. I heard "Team Canada" set out early as they were going to ride more of the last day ride than most of us. I thought about doing