Cruise Ships & Fo Guang Shan

Not to much happened this week, as I've had a nasty cold and really couldn't be to bothered taking photos....... but of course I do have some.

There are a couple of Cruise Ships in at the moment the Millenium and the Amsterdam.

Millenium

Millenium

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

I forgot to put these photos in a previous post these are the neat seats they have down at the Cloud where you can sit in the sun (well being Auckland probably rain!!) and have your lunch.

Below are a few pieces of Art, photos taken at the PWC building.

Sunday 18 November 2012

"May the Buddha's Light shine upon the ten directions. May the Dharma stream continuously flow towards the five great continents"

Today we went out to the Fo Guang Shan temple in East Tamaki. Such an amazing place, reminds me so much of the temples of Asia, they have a calming influence and an air of serenity.  Next time we go back we will be trying out the vegetarian restaurant, they had a great menu.

Pagoda

Difficult to see but these walls
have water running down them

.... and thats all Folks!

Hunter Gatherer

On Thursday Malcolm took the torpedo out to Muriwai, it was a very successful day, 10 Snapper and 12 Gurnard, a 10ft Shark and a 5ft Shark here is a pic. of the largest Snapper. As you can see the biggest one takes up the length of the chilly bin, and this isn't just an ordinary sized chilly bin, and going by the Maori Calendar this was supposed to be a bad fishing day!
The biggest Snapper was 15lb (7.5kg), afraid you are still not in the 20lb club, unlike me...better luck next time..

 

 

7.5 kg (15lb)

 

Doo, doo, doo, doo..doodoodoodoo...
Anyway you get the drift...JAWS was here!!!






 

Askew One has been painting the Silos down at Wynyard Quarter, not quite finished yet, but looking pretty good.... will update when they have finished.

 

 

Giddyup

Yesterday was Melbourne Cup day and it was humming at the Viaduct, here are some pictures taken at the Soul Bar. There was horse shoe throwing, segway races and lots of glitz and glamour

3 weeks later................

Now where on earth did that time go!!!

So whats happening.

This past week has been Art Week, and I've spent most of my spare time running around town following the Art Trails. I tried to get into some closed collections but these booked out pretty quickly, shame.  There will be a tab at the top of the page on Monday night so you can see pictures of the Art Works.

 



Also around town there have been 2 cruise ships in, the Dawn Princess and the Oosterdam, also a huge vessel unloading 100's (1000's??) of cars.



 

 

Oosterdam

Oosterdam

 

Dawn Princess

 

Dawn Princess

 

Trans Future 6 (Car Hauler)

 



Wandered down to The Cloud on a beautiful day, they have huge deck chairs you can lie on in the sun and enjoy your lunch right at the end of the wharf overlooking the harbour, it was a beautiful hot day the day I went, pretty magic.

 

 

Cloud

 

Looking back at City

 

Cloud Side

 

Also down at Britomart was this amazing thermal steam water feature pond above the underground platform and outside glasshouse entrance of Britomart Transport Centre, New Railway Station, Old Chief Post Office.

 

 

 

 

Besides working thats all I've done this week!!

 

 

28th October 2012

 

It was a long weekend last weekend and we went to Waipu. Below is a brief summary but because there are quite a few pictures (naturally) I've put a tab at the top of the page.

 

 

 

The weather was glorious, we got none of the crap that was forecast (unless you count the one little shower on Sunday night). Even got a slight hint of sunburn, and just to prove it heres a photo of our thermometer!

 

Went to a place called Roots & Shoots!! and in case you're wondering they sell Tropical Plants & have a paintball type setup, and serve Devonshire Teas. 

 

We went fishing on the Saturday and caught one mother fugly fish a stargazer, yucky and all slimy..brrrr. 

 Luckily Malcolm caught a couple of gurnard on the Friday (while some of us were working) so at least we had some fish for dinner.

Don't forget to check out the other photos on the Waipu tab above!

 

Anyway the weekends over and another week begins, what happened in the city this week.

 

Well, Camper (round the world yacht ) is back at its base in the Viaduct. (Pity about the crane)

 



Camper



Also saw this really neat seat at the Viaduct, Kauri me thinks.

 

Had lunch with Michelle at the Humbug Cafe in Rua Road, Glen Eden (for those who don't know I grew up in this street but not in this cafe!)
OMG the food is to die for, we had risotto cakes with roast pumpkin, feta, baby tomatoes, salad, orange & ginger dressing and aioli. This cafe got a 5 star review in the Canvas magazine, and I will definitely be going back.

Bottled the Vin d'Orange, oh my lord, this is an incredible drink, certainly packs a punch and can definitely only drink one glass of this at a time...but oh, so tasty.

 



I have added some more Art work to the Murals & Graffiti section so check it out.

 

...and to end this........a cute picture of a baby....

 

PLOVER