Monday, March 31, 2008
Waihi Vintage Car Hillclimb
Click here if you are looking for the St Patricks day parade
The Bay of Plenty VCC held their second Waihi Hillclimb on Sunday. Here are some of the (about 40) cars.
The Orchid Special went well and came second overall, beaten by Steve Sharp's 1960 Lotus 7 by 5 seconds. The course is stated as 2.5 km, so my 1 minute 5 seconds makes an average speed of 138 km/h (86 mph) and certainly most of the course was in top gear, over 80 mph. I wasn't watching the speedo on the faster parts! I see my last year's best time was 1m 29 sec.
We stayed in a motel in Waihi, had a wander around town, and were amazed to find the Martha Mine about 50m from the main street. Just walk up from the main street by the old pump station building that was moved 385 metres in 2006, and weighed 1800 tons.
Do walk up and have a look if you are passing through Waihi, they still get $1 Million worth of gold and silver each month. Or is it each week?
The Bay of Plenty VCC held their second Waihi Hillclimb on Sunday. Here are some of the (about 40) cars.
The Orchid Special went well and came second overall, beaten by Steve Sharp's 1960 Lotus 7 by 5 seconds. The course is stated as 2.5 km, so my 1 minute 5 seconds makes an average speed of 138 km/h (86 mph) and certainly most of the course was in top gear, over 80 mph. I wasn't watching the speedo on the faster parts! I see my last year's best time was 1m 29 sec.
We stayed in a motel in Waihi, had a wander around town, and were amazed to find the Martha Mine about 50m from the main street. Just walk up from the main street by the old pump station building that was moved 385 metres in 2006, and weighed 1800 tons.
Do walk up and have a look if you are passing through Waihi, they still get $1 Million worth of gold and silver each month. Or is it each week?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
St Patrick's Day - Part 2
Here are some more shots that I didn't have time to put into Part 1 below.
Auckland Regional Drumlin
Auckland Regional Drumlin
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Auckland St Patrick's Day Parade
St Patrick's Day falls on Monday, and as Easter is so early the Pope decreed that it should be held on Saturday and not in the Holy week before Easter. The Irish, of course, are celebrating both days. We went to the parade in Queen St and the 'Fleadh' by the Town Hall.
Spectators were dressed for the occasion. St Patrick himself handed out blessings, amongst the snakes.
The 'Fleadh' included three bands, The Blacksmiths, the Celtic Flyers and the Banned, doing traditional, popular and modern respectively.
Dancers presented Irish dancing, with quite an influence from Riverdance and Lord of the Dance.
The right hand picture above is of the troupe from the Doyle Academy of Irish dance, and from left they are: Ashleigh, Nicole, Chris, Corrina, Claire, Sophie, Shannon and Georgia.
Teddy found a tooth!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Teddy missed the plane
Teddy hid in the car and didn't go home, so he will have a few travels before he gets to Bendigo.
He has been checking out his new home today.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
All the Grandies at once
Only one day to go, and back to Melbourne. Today a visit from Stacey & Caleb.
'Tasha
Stacey
Emily
Caleb & Rhys
'Tasha
Stacey
Emily
Caleb & Rhys
