(b)logophile » hexpedition southerly http://www.logophile.org/blog blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:04:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2692 Golden Bay: down on the farm http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/03/21/golden-bay-down-on-the-farm/ http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/03/21/golden-bay-down-on-the-farm/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:18:11 +0000 tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=250 Another photo album.

In Golden Bay I stayed with my folks, on their farm. Despite this, there are no photos of sheep. We did lots of other traditional Golden Bay things though. For instance…

  • Beaches
    • Tata (and a shag)
    • Wharariki (walking on trees, and a seal)
    • Bainham
    • on the Abel Tasman (more shags)
  • Haymaking (you can see how two blokes marry in the Bay, if you’re interested)
  • Swimming in
    • the (upper) Takaka
    • the Abel Tasman
    • the swimming hole up the road
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In Wanganui I stayed with Ian and his fiancée Katie. Ian is a pilot and flying instructor, and I finally (after many years of promises, of living in different places and of foul weather when we did coincide) got to fly with him, in a wee four-seater with Katie and a friend in the back. We went looking for the Bridge to Nowhere but didn’t find it (we were looking on the Whanganui River, whereas it turns out the bridge is across a side gorge). From the air the texture of the stands of punga (tree ferns) is incredible, but unfortunately I couldn’t capture it on camera through the window of the plane.

A couple of days before I left Ewan turned up, and we took ourselves off to the beach for a bout of bridge-building — most of the photos are from that day.

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First up: The Golden Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show (the A&P show). The annual show combines a fair (ferris wheel, candy floss, “everyone’s a winner, lotsa lucky numbers” and all) with a livestock show and competitions, competition wood-chopping and speed shearing, a steam- and traction engine show, a grand parade (complete with stunt motorcyclists and the local brass band), and plenty of other stuff also. It’s an institution, and no Kiwi small town would be the same without it.

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