DL 9688 approaching Bayfair
Here we see KiwiRail's newest locomotive crossing Matapihi Road (near the Bayfair shopping centre). On this occasion, 9688 was in charge of train 352 - a Kawerau to Mount Maunganui service.
Last Monday, DL 9089 was in charge of Train 352. I know this because I managed to see/photograph said train, shortly after hearing Led Zeppelin's Going to California on the radio. The pictures are on my Flickr page, which you are more than welcome to check out. The page is called 'JA1250'.
The crossing in this video is on a new alignment which was built to allow a new flyover to be built at the Bayfair roundabout. The railway used to run right across the road from the aforementioned shopping centre.
New Zealand Adventure Blog #1
Guide Tour in New Zealand with some friends.
How to kill a opossum guide, nature walk and some Alpacas..
Australia New Zealand And Some Islands Of The South Seas, Frank G. Carpenter
Australia New Zealand And Some Islands Of The South Seas, Frank G. Carpenter
Rare Antique Photo Book !
Also contains...
Thursday Island, The Samoas,
New Guinea, The Fijis, and the Tongas.
Presented to you at this auction is a wonderful old book richly illustrated with 126 RARE vintage photographs taken in the early 1900's ! You will take a journey with the author Frank G. Carpenter and view many historical, cultural, and incredible photographs of a time forgotten. Writing about his travels in the series Carpenter's World Travels, Frank G. Carpenter gave his readers detailed stories and fascinating information about the local history, myths, and facts of the countries he visited so that every American could get a glimpse, first hand of the worlds beyond our shores.
Contents
Just a word before we start
The giant of the South Seas
Queensland
A crown of gold and a cross of cactus
The metropolis of the Antipodes
Walks about Sydney
The land of the golden fleece
In the great wool market
Life on the sheep stations
Rabbits and dingoes
Water for thirsty lands
Melbourne
In the marts of the city
The state-owned railways
Gold diggings in creek and desert
A white workers' continent
The three R's in Australia
The Aborigines
Kangaroos and dancing birds
Australia as our customer
Tasmania
The pearl fisheries of Thursday Island
Australia's island wards
Across the Tasman Sea to Wellington
The Dominion of New Zealand
Social Pests
The women of the Dominion
A country without a poorhouse
Where the working man rules
On the government railways
The Yellowstone of New Zealand
The Maoris
Mutton and butter for London tables
Some freaks of nature
American goods in New Zealand
The Fijis and the Tongas
The Samoas
Illustrations
In the Great White Continent .... Frontispiece
Crossing the Murray River
The giant tree ferns
Wheat going to market
Wool for half the world
On the Brisbane water front
The Brisbane River
Queensland sugar
Pineapples
Bottle trees
A settler's home
The hill of gold and copper
The sapphire mines
Clearing off the scrub
How the farmers live
Down town in Sydney
At Bondi Beach
Airplane view of Sydney harbour
Manly Beach
Hauling the wool clip to market
Some champion Merinos
Winter sports on Mount Kosciusko
Skating amid the green
In the sheepfold
To a tea party on horseback
Home life on a sheep station
The sheep shearers
Sheep about to lose their wool
Home of a station manager
Boys who grow up on horseback
The boundary rider
Irrigating orchard
Rabbit fences
Packing rabbit skins for export
A city on the reclaimed lands
Breaking down the scrub
Rescuing cattle from the drought
How water is saved
Boiling the billy .
Collins Street, Melbourne
At the race track
Melbourne city hall
The Parliament House
Alexandra Gardens
Logging in the eucalyptus forest
The Governor's house at Perth
Moving the wheat crop
An artesian bore
Panning gold
The dry-blow process
A camel train
The sheep-shearers' smoker
The leather workers
The drive across country
Immigrants landing
Girls learning to keep house
The grammar school at Melbourne
How some children get to school
Where farm wives go to school
Half-civilized aborigines
The aborigines of the wilds
Turkey shooting by airplane
Kangaroo
The Australian opossum
Mother bear and her baby
In Sydney's business district
Loading wheat for export
American machinery in Australian mines
Motor picnics in American cars
The stripper harvester
An Illinois harvester in Australia
In Hobart, Tasmania
Logging on a Tasmanian river
Hobart and Derwent River
Orchards of the Apple Isle
Thursday Island
Tattooed South Sea Island belles
Opening the pearl oyster
South Sea Islander
A village house
A South Sea warrior
On the shores of the Tasman Sea
Wellington harbour
A New Zealand forest
The beautiful coast of South Island
Potential water power
A New Zealand farm
The crater of Mount Tarawera
Developing new crops
A settler's home site
A Maori belle
Women hop pickers
Beach at Napier
The great Tasman glacier
Christmas roses
The wheat harvest
The New Zealander's favourite sport
Sheep in a turnip field
A private railroad
At the Yellowstone of New Zealand
Wairoa geyser
The hot sulphur pit of White Island
Maori house at Lake Taupo
Poi dance
Natural fireless cookers
Bathers in the hot pools
The Maorj haka
Grading butter for export
The dying art of tattooing
A New Zealand harbour
The rabbit trappers' catch
Mount Egmont
The Totara tree
On Mount Cook
Kauri gum mines
New Zealand flax
Farming with tractor and gang ploughs
A dairy herd
London's mutton chops
Gathering coconuts
Tree nursery on a rubber plantation
Savii in eruption
Native church at Apia
Native mission school
A Samoan beauty
Copra ready for shipment
Possum 1: Alcohol and Partying
Taylor and Gaz need to find a party. But will they? It's ok, they have Stoli.
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Seahorse in Kau Bay NZ 2012 filmed with GOPRO Hero 2
Found a great seahorse in Kau Bay at around 5m in the seaweed.
Kiwi Meal
Worms are yummy !
And Ki-Girls pretty...busy !
Nightshots taken in Waikanae and Napier.
1 Landmarks (1981) A Land Apart
Where no human foot had trodden
Awesome forces shaped and reshaped a country like no other, a land apart where evolution took unique forms. Wracked by volcanic upheavals but pampered by a bountiful climate, it waited – untouched by man until the latest tick of geological time.
milk train at bottom of westmere bank 13.09.14
train 544 on its way to whareroa
Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:18 1 Historiography
00:01:27 1.1 Development of the theory in the 19th century
00:05:36 1.2 Kenneth McIntyre and development of the theory in the 20th century
00:07:52 2 Evidence and arguments
00:08:02 2.1 Interpretation of the Dieppe Maps
00:11:06 2.2 Cristóvão de Mendonça's role
00:12:56 2.3 Claims of Portuguese words in Aboriginal Australian languages
00:15:06 2.4 Other purported textual and cartographic evidence
00:16:15 2.4.1 iSpeculum Orbis Terrae/i
00:17:32 2.4.2 James Cook and Cooktown harbour
00:19:35 2.5 Purported evidence from relics
00:19:45 2.5.1 Mahogany Ship
00:20:54 2.5.2 The Geelong Keys
00:22:10 2.5.3 Cannon
00:23:43 2.5.4 Bittangabee Bay
00:25:37 3 Criticisms and alternative views of the Dieppe Maps
00:34:14 4 See also
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The theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia claims that early Portuguese navigators were the first Europeans to sight Australia between 1521 and 1524, well before the arrival of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606 on board the Duyfken who is generally considered to be the first European discoverer. This is based on the following elements:
The Dieppe maps, a group of 16th-century French world maps, which depict a large landmass between Indonesia and Antarctica. Labelled as Java la Grande, this land mass carries French, Portuguese, and Gallicized Portuguese placenames, and has been interpreted by some as corresponding to Australia's northwestern and eastern coasts.
The presence of Portuguese colonies in Southeast Asia from the early 16th century, particularly Portuguese Timor – approximately 650 kilometres from the Australian coast – c. 1513–1516.
Various antiquities found on Australian coastlines, claimed to be relics of early Portuguese voyages to Australia, which are more commonly regarded as evidence of Makassan visit of Northern Australia.Precedence of Australia's discovery has also been claimed for China (Admiral Zheng), France, Spain, and even Phoenicia.