Grandad's photos

Here's some of the things we did in the last few days. Foxton has a very interesting Dutch windmill, made about 2002, in regular production grinding flour. We had a good chat to the Dutch people managing it. Interesting leading edge slotted flaps fitted to the blades! Sort of thing you see on a Jumbo Jet.

Foxton was pretty interesting, with a trolley bus museum and good collectible shops. We were trying to find some of the beach racing history of the Model A, so spoke to some people and got a few leads.



This is Foxton Beach, nice white sand, we expected black, it being West Coast.



We visited the wind farm again at Ashurst, the wind generators are so big they are quite unreal. Spot Julie standing at the base! It was blowing fairly hard, and they just made a gentle swishing sound.



Here is a spare blade, and look at this guy fitting one!


We were looking about with our Russian tank binoculars and the army spotted us and sent a tank!



We came back via Ohakune and stayed a night, it is completely shut down for the summer, most shops say 'opening in June'. No chairlifts running like at Whakapapa.