Grandad's photos

I have had a little time available, and now a laptop that reads DVDs, so I have now put together a couple of Powerpoint shows on Maui Platform A 1976-1979 and the Otahuhu Gas Turbine Power Station 1968-69. Download here: MauiPlatformA.pps is 9 MB and the OtaraGasTurbineStation.pps is 2.7 MB. Sorry, some of the Maui slides had some dirt on, another job for a rainy day.

** Update 2nd May, these .pps files are now stored on www.KeepMyFile.com, www.photobucket.com would not accept .pps files, only images and movies.

And don't forget the earlier Engineers Raft Race 1967.

On the way home we thought we would check out the North side of the Manukau harbour entrance. The road from Titirangi heads past a waterworks dam or two and ends in 7km of windy dirt road.



That's the other side of the Manukau Heads there, behind that big rock.



Here's the view towards Bendigo, in 3-D. Hi kids!

We decided to check out some country we have not seen, so we headed up to Helensville, then up the South Kaipara Peninsula, to the top which is known as South Head.



Helensville seemed to have run down a bit since our last visit there, with signs of businesses closing. All the buildings' windows seem to point away from the attractive tidal river. A walk along the new river path shows a graffiti-covered dairy factory and bombs of cars on one side and nice views over the river to the Kaipara Harbour on the other.



Access down to a beach was on a steep track through this nice forest (in 3-D) with this nice fantail greeting us.



We pretty much had the place to ourselves apart from a couple of fishermen, two Paradise Ducks and some nice cloud formations.



It is possible to walk over the rocks for 2-3 km to the top and the harbour entrance.



We left the beach and drove over Trig Rd to the West side where there is a lagoon.



Nice view - but what's that on the right? A Nissan, that's what.



In this part of the country the farming seems to be by hobby farmers, paddocks have deer, llamas, black-face sheep and cows with odd faces.

Day 2 follows above.

Today I made a 15 minute (digital) tape of Nana talking about her life. I also copied about 30 pictures that will go into a DVD. Here's a little sample for you. :-)

This is probably the car's first race event in 40 years. A good day to test it at the Sports Car Club Easter sprint meeting. No major problems, the bonnet hinge broke and was replaced with a screwdriver and a bit of oil was coming out the dipstick hole. Brakes weren't great but lasted the day. The seating position is a bit cramped. Thanks David, for the photos.

There were a lot of people in a small house and it wasn't possible to move around for better photos. That's Don and his wife Liz just behind Joe.