I find some old photographic slides

In a Kaikohe junk shop I came across a box of old colour slides from the 1970’s. I find discarded social history of this sort fascinating - here are highlights of someone’s life, carefully, and probably proudly, recorded and annotated....then under different circumstances simply junked.
Thanks to www.freesfx.co.nz for the soundtrack....

See the video:

 

https://youtu.be/Ip44pln-Q3g

In a Kaikohe junk shop I came across a box of old colour slides from the 1970’s. I find discarded social history of this sort fascinating - here are highlights of someone’s life, carefully, and probably proudly, recorded and annotated....then under different circumstances simply junked.
Thanks to www.freesfx.co.nz for the soundtrack....

See the video:

industrial devastation

Visiting old, abandoned industrial sites is a rare pleasure. On this trip I came across a burnt-out wood-mill in Kaitaia opposite the cemetery.
On Sunday of Labour Day with no-one around I was able to explore the site quite thoroughly....

See the video:

 

https://youtu.be/hY-rdxZjzaA

   

2015 National Weaving Hui - Part Two

A visit to the National Weaving Hui at Ahipara, and a look at the local marae.

See the video:

 

https://youtu.be/hY-rdxZjzaA

 

 

flax weaving hui - part one

At Labour weekend I attended the 2015 NZ National Flax Weaing Hui at Ahipapa at the southern end of 90 Mile Beach.

There was an exhibition of the work of past weavers at the marae. Unfortunately, but understandably, photography was not permitted within the building. However I have included some pix of the meeting house and the church.

See the video at:

 

https://youtu.be/O-wUZylmnKE

Tokerau Beach

Another beach walk in the Far North, and a found jandal....

 

https://youtu.be/dI1Csi2kLBo

road kill!

Although I have seen several instances of road-kill on this trip, they have so far been either too mangled, too old, or too large (a turkey and a goose) to salvage.

However, just outside of Tauranga Bay I came across a fresh, manageable rabbit.
As you can see the eye is still clear.

I wrapped the body in newspaper, and later skinned and gutted it at Whangaroa, then hung it in the van for 2 days - it was so fresh it attracted no flies!

At Taipa I met some locals who invited me to stay the night on their property, in return I shared my find with them - cooked in a can of tomatoes, with diced pumpkin and carrot, some ginger, and the Promite and beef stock I carry for making gravy.

See the video: 

                                                     https://youtu.be/H_ZHxwygeeU

jandal finds

Jandal finds continue: I found this pair broken and abandoned by the side of the road  just as I turned off Highway 10 onto the Taupo Bay Road:

...and this one on the beach at Tokerau Bay: