Tag Archives: 1974

55. Christchurch – New Brighton

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Graham’s
Friday, March 29: Sunny & warm the whole day, a few clouds in the evening
Old beach, new pier, New Brighton.

Old beach, new pier, New Brighton.

The processing of the sunset series was finished this morning, so the pictures were clipped and reduced in size and rendered into a shortish film that was produced with Windows Movie Maker. This took a little getting used to, but in the course of the morning the film took shape. Graham had left rather early this morning, and Joe left for a climbing trip later in the morning. Continue reading →

42. Otago Peninsula, South Dunedin

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Ben & Lucy’s
Saturday, March 16: Sunny and somewhat windy until the clouds appeared in late afternoon

This was a day for a latish start after all of the action yesterday, but I did want to drive down the Otago Peninsula & see if I could do some walks, but first there were a couple of computer matters to deal with.

Developing the pictures from Milford Day 1 virtually filled up the hard drive, so a solution had to be found to avoid gridlock. Looked around a bit and saw that Dick Smith had a 2 TB hard drive for $149 and that will have to do as a backup device for the moment. Tried for ages to get the other 32 GB card to become bootable for the SX 120, but if it were bootable at all it couldn’t find the necessary modules to load for grids, etc. Continue reading →

Kiwi I, 1974-75

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Author, ca. 1976

The first trip to New Zealand was my first trip overseas at all, and my first flight. In those days passports were not necessary for travelling across the ditch (even if it meant it was a little tricky getting through the international airport that Tullamarine surely already was). From Tuesday, December 10, 1974 to Friday, January 31, 1975, starting in Christchurch we completed an almost figure-of-eight of the two islands. Continue reading →

Travel Diaries

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“My Trip” Diary 1974-1978

For a long, long time, I have kept travel diaries. The oldest one still in my possession is a dedicated travel pocket diary (9 cm x 15 cm, 90 leaf, left: cover, “My Trip”; right: excerpt) given to me by my grandmother in 1974 to record the 74/75 two-month New Zealand round tour in. Continue reading →

Green Light

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Koru – the fern leaf spiral

The go-ahead for the new adventure came late last week, after a couple of weeks of prelegal danse macabre. Anyhow, it’s there now, and the final preparations can begin in earnest.

For begun they have well before this time last year, when I was originally planning this trip. There have been plans and preparations, and prices to compare and check again. One of the most comprehensive questions covered was that of photography, although that was no longer a question of what camera to take, but rather how to deal with all of the eventualities that hacking the current set of three cameras has brought with it. Continue reading →