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| Thread ID: 83060 | 2007-09-18 03:40:00 | Where Is Porirua Harbour? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 592134 | 2007-09-18 09:58:00 | www.imagef1.net.nz(southern_arm).jpg www.imagef1.net.nz(better_shot).jpg www.imagef1.net.nz(northern_arm).jpg www.imagef1.net.nz Some snaps of Porirua Harbour for you, SJ. If you look to the left of the shot looking west, you should just see the radio mast built by the Yanks in WW2 (720 ft high), by the suburb of Titahi Bay (which is to the left of the shot of the southern arm :p ). |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 592135 | 2007-09-18 09:59:00 | Come for a visit some time Joe - I'm sure there are plenty of PF1 members who'd be happy to give you a guided tour. | somebody (208) | ||
| 592136 | 2007-09-18 15:42:00 | Come for a visit some time Joe - I'm sure there are plenty of PF1 members who'd be happy to give you a guided tour . Ahhh! And would we be able to stop by Metla's for that cold beer he promised me a year or so ago? It's funny, but I think of an island as small like Catalina or maybe Hawaii . . . not the big island, but the one with Honolulu on it . . . and I figger that youse guys are all neighbors living in the same close area and visit each other all the time . "Hey mate, got a cuppa sugar?" or "Yo, sport, got time for a flagon at the pub?" or "Kin ya help me get my sheep outta the blinkin' ditch?" kinda stuff . . . . I know . . . I got it all wrong . . but I kinda like thinking of youse that way . ;) . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 592137 | 2007-09-18 20:55:00 | Yes - NZ used to be like that around 20 or 30 years ago Joe. Times have changed - some things for better, some for worse... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 592138 | 2007-09-18 21:01:00 | "Kin ya help me get my sheep outta the blinkin' ditch?" :lol: :lol: :p |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 592139 | 2007-09-18 21:16:00 | :lol: :lol: :pDon't laugh wrattereus - I have assisted farmers with wayward stock a number of times over the years on back-country roads. And I'm a city boy (but originally from farming stock)... :thumbs: :) | johcar (6283) | ||
| 592140 | 2007-09-18 21:20:00 | Well, to a lot of people's surprise, we don't ditch our sheep so often lately. mainly because there are 20 million sheep less than there used to be, so the ditches are a bit full. (If you had eaten more mutton, we would need a lot more bridges.) Also, in these cases, though the sheep do the blinking, the ditch gets a bit choked up. The islands are a bit bigger than they look on the map, many tourists are worried to find their aircraft landing in a more or less E/W direction; they fear such a narrow country will be overturned when the plane puts the brakes on. If another slight earth tremor displaces N.Z. and it winds up about where you are, Stewart Island would be about where Seattle is, and the Northern tip would be around L.A. to keep things at their current distance from the pole. A Welsh friend of mine when flying through that area would always go via the East Coast, just to avoid having to report he was at Pauatahanui. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 592141 | 2007-09-18 21:27:00 | Don't laugh wrattereus - I have assisted farmers with wayward stock a number of times over the years on back-country roads. And I'm a city boy (but originally from farming stock)... :thumbs: :) I was laughting cause it was true, lol. SJ hit the nail on the head and didn't know it. I did (and still do, on occasion) work on a rather large sheep farm. (550 hectares) :eek: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 592142 | 2007-09-18 21:31:00 | ....Pauatahanui.Pronunciation guide for Joe: Colloquial: "pa-ta-nu-ee" Strict(-ish) Maori pronunciation: "pa-wa-ta-ha-nu-ee" :D :D :D BTW Joe - Pauatanui is in the general area of the Porirua harbour (harbor)... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 592143 | 2007-09-18 21:45:00 | If another slight earth tremor displaces N.Z. and it winds up about where you are, Stewart Island would be about where Seattle is, and the Northern tip would be around L.A. to keep things at their current distance from the pole. Boy..that would mess youse up big time! The seasonal changes alone and then the blood actually getting to your feet for a while..it boggles! Bulletin: Phil Specter trial is hung in a 7-5 deadlock and the judge is re-instructing the jury to try for an involuntary murder instead of second degree and re-panel itself and seek an unanimous verdict. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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