APATA, WHERE WE LIVE (for a month)

Our housesit for the month of July.

Looking towards the Mount which can just be seen, centre background.

Upper Tauranga Harbour

Kaimai's

Kitchen view

Energetic Ollie

17yr old Rosie

Sassy the cat

And nine chooks

THE LAST OF THE SOUTH & ONTO THE NORTH

Our spot for the night at Pohara Boat Club.

Easy pick mussels, Pohara.

Omaka Aviation Museum, Blenheim

On the ferry. Bye bye South Island.

Fells Locomotive Museum, Featherston.

Heading towards Cape Palliser.

Cape Palliser Lighthouse, 208 steps straight up.

The Woolshed & Golden Shears Museum, Masterton.

Castle Point lighthouse from our park site.

Playing trains with "Thomas the Tank Engine", Middleton Model Railway, near Eketahuna.

Looks the part but no fish, Mahia Peninsula.

Waiotahi Estuary, NZMCA park over property, Opotiki.

Our view of a Papamoa sunset from one of our favourite places,

Papmoa Top 10 Holiday Park.

WESTPORT AND NORTH ON THE COAST

Demonstration of the steepest part of the Denniston Incline at the Coaltown Museum, Westport.

Sandie and her tour group, Stockton Coalmine.

Capable of pushing up to 200 tonnes, Stockton Coalmine.

Top of the Denniston Incline.

Kohaihai DOC Camp just north of Karamea.

Beginning of Heaphy Track.

Box Canyon Cave.

Floor of Crazy Paving Cave.

Mirror Tarn

Oparara Arch

NATIONAL NZMCA RALLY, CHRISTCURCH

Opening ceremony.

Anzac Day service.

Steam tug "Lyttelton". We went for a harbour cruise on this.

Good Hawea friends Pam & Trevor.

Some of the Auckland crowd.

Weedons NZMCA park. We stayed here before and after the rally.

WEKA PASS RAIL

Eating a sausage while waiting to board.

One person manpowered jigger.

Fellow parishoner, Guard John.

"DG" loco, I used to work on these as part of my apprenticeship.

On to the turntable in preparation for the return journey.

Two men, one loco.

Passing cars, Weka Pass

Very narrow cuttings through the Pass as they were all done with pick,shovel and wheelbarrow.

CHRISTCHURCH MISCELLANY

A happy chappy bickys at the beach. (Sumner)

Lynn at cave Sumner Beach.

Flagstaff Hill, Sumner before the 22 Feb earthquake. It is somewhat different now.

Robin Judkins, Mr Coast to Coast finishing.

Speights Coast to Coast finish line Sumner Beach.

Thankfully the worst of the earthquake damage in Lynn's house especially when you hear the sad and heartrending stories one month later.

Exterior wall.

Happy in her lot preparing to make pear crumble for charity. Pears off Lynn's tree.

Not so sure.

The end result ready for 1oo plus diners at St Chad's earthquake welfare centre where we helped the following day.