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150227 Waiheke Island Video ...

Saw what looked like a Laser Olympic squad practising on the way out ( small weekday squad with training tender ) and a Fin dingy championship ( or a large fleet ) sailing on the way back ... Also an older New Zealand America's Cup yacht on a jaunt on the way back as well ..also we cruised past a rather large yacht on the way back which had connections with Bill Gates and other unmentionable persons .... terrible wi fi here ... Volvo cup .. chricket and a special conference on here .... it took Gill 1 hour to log onto the Archers' Omnibus podcast ......This is the video that covers all three postings of still shots of the Island

27th February 2015 Langham Hotel Auckland ...

Sitting in the hotel room trying to get up to date with this blog .. Noticed a man on the roof next to our high floor room .. Its NZ vs Aus in the Cricket World Cup tomorrow played here at Auckland and the Volvo round the world races calls in at Auckland in the next day or two  ..Wi-i slowing down ..  we get outside and the hotel is surrounded by police ... Think its the PM visiting ... Gill was sitting in the lobby while I did a spot of shopping and got chatted up by the lady and men police force in the lobby ... It was Tony Abbot the Australian  PM who stopped by for a wash and brush up together with 600 policemen ..lots of them were  in Langham Hotel uniforms with earphones .. ... They sure know how to lock-down the place  ... 20:58:25 having dessert in the lobby and there are policemen in uniform patrolling inside the building ... The Aus are a bit nervous after Martin incident 



Place incident ...

27th February 2015 Waiheke Island on the Island ...

Auckland from the Ferry

From the Ferry Small Laser fleet sailing with training boat on a Tuesday - Olympic squad ?

Well designed looking Coastgaurd Cutter obviously fast and a good boarding vessel

Leaving the Island ... ;-( ...

Mudbrick Winery from the Ferry

Tour Makers making a mess of the Spinnaker on old Americas Cup boat

Queen Elisabeth

Somebody's Runabout ...

The beach near the Boathouse

Monarch Butterfly

The Sea from Oneroa

The beach near the Boathouse

Gues who is surfing ....

Sea at the 'wild west' of the Island

NZ Pidgeon

Dry West of the Island

Wonderful view to the West

Hotels trusty 4 by 4

Wonderful view to the West

23rd February 2015 Auckland Whangamata Hot Springs Beach Cathedral Cove and Wharekawa Mangrove and Beach ...

We then to a drive round the Corramandel Peninsula all the way to Auckland ... quite a spectacular drive :-

This is a view of a nice seaside and fishing village that we stayed at on the Corramandel called Whangamata

Sunrise over Whangamata

Interesting beach that we visited

The story of the Hot Springs Beach

People digging to make hot water bathing pools on Hot Springs Beach ... was tricky for google earlier ....

Cathedral Cove

Geological Fetaure

Geological Feature

On the way North and West on the Corramandel Peninsular

The last single hull Kiwi Challenger for the Americas Cup before the Multihulls took over sited at Viaduct Basin in Auckland

The Story of The last single hull Kiwi Challenger for the Americas Cup

27th February 2015 A video which covers Rapaura Falls,Whangamata, Hot Springs Beach, Cathedral Cove, Wharekawa Beach and Aukland ...

This s video which overs off the posts for Rapaura falls park and garden, Whangamata Hot Springs Beach Cathedral Cove and Wharekawa mangrove beach and Aukland. These posts are separated as I am being careful not to upload too many pictures at once to try to prevent the Google police from downing my blog because I 'spammed' my own blog..... :-) ... About 6 minutes...