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Just saw a Tui in the garden. These birds have always lived around Wellington but were always very rare. In recent years there has been a resurgence, particularly in the western suburbs. I’ve heard them singing over the last few weeks, but it was great to finally see one drinking nectar out of the flax.

Dusk in Wellington

Sunrise 7/7/05 – Red sky in the morning…

Winter view of Wellington Harbour from Roseneath

Anzac Day in Wellington 2005

Enchanted Island

“Even in Arcadia I am”

Lighthouse

Pathway to the enchanted forest (or, if you get lost, the prison…)

Where the bar of Bar Bodega was – brushed aside along with the rest of the neighbourhood for an inadequate and unnecessary road

The front section of the old Bar Bodega building will be moved. The cafe was at the front of the building

I’ve been watching the drama unfold as a small capsized catamaran in Evans Bay is assisted by the harbour board rescue boat. A boatie capsized and although I thought that he was making progress in righting his boat, a rescue boat has arrived at the scene and is attempting to assist. Two smaller boats are checking out the action. It looks as though the stricken vessel is being towed onto the beach….

Fog at 8:15

Fog at 8:25

Fog at 9:15, and planes are landing at the airport again.

There is a freaky fog rolling into the harbour at the moment. It has swallowed up the entire far side of the harbour and it is getting denser.

Wellington has been hit by a number of small earthquakes over the last few days. This morning there was a 5.5 which got me out of bed (at 8am I might add). I listened to a seismologist on the radio talking about the quake. He was asked about a theory that we cling to in Wellington, that small quakes are good because they release pressure and delay the inevitable ‘big one’. He was not exactly reassuring. He said that this can be the case, but that when a fault line ‘fails’, it can upset surrounding fault lines and contribute towards triggering them.

Yes, there is a downside to living on a archipelago that borders two tectonic plates.

The view from the new place this morning, looking north:

And looking west-ish:

I love this town….