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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Mar 29, 2014
Description:
The days of no progress getting back on board SuRi showed no hope of quickly ending. I decided that something productive needed to be done. I arranged to have routine maintenance done on the SeaRey’s engine. All I had to do was get it down to Taraunga and the local Rotax service center. A day or two there and I should be good to go whenever/wherever. Getting there would be a leisurely circumnavigation of Auckland’s busy airspace and down the Coromandel Peninsula to the Bay of Plenty.
Date Taken:
Mar 29, 2014
Place Taken:
Whangaparaoa Peninsula, NZ
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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446, Yacht Tending NZ
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Before the Coromandel, I had to fly the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. It was part of the ocean floor in the distant past. It was pushed up by plate tectonics, leaving twisted interbedded marine sandstones, siltstones, and volcanic grits.
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Sliced and Diced
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Trying to figure out the geology of such a mixed up place is great if you like massive puzzles. The first geology job I had was working for Dr. K. J. Stanaway, a mining geologist from New Zealand. The work we were doing for Dupont on the Florida Atlantic coast must have been so boring for him. What he taught me is that you can’t shoot butterflies with a BB gun while bouncing through the forests in an old Chevy Blazer, but it is a wild ride.
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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There are some geologists that believe there is big fault just off the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. I decided to cut across the Hauraki Gulf in search of evidence. That allowed me to cross over Tiritiri Matang Island enroute. The island is an “open” wildlife sanctuary known for its birds. There were none in sight on the rocks surrounding the island.
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Clam Rock
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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The gray of greywacky underlies a lot of New Zealand’s geology. This greywacky is a really old (300 Ma), poorly sorted sandstone with lots of silt that is commonly extremely deformed, fractured, and veined. Its tortured nature is reflected in the coastline.
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Hard Points
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Stuck in between the treacherous looking razor rocks of the coastline there are some hidden little gems.
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SeaRey Size Cove
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Dave Lima - Mar 29,2014
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My fav pic...looks very seclude!
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Waiheke Island was at one time reputed to be home to social outcasts and outlaws. People like hermits, hippies, potters and pot growers, and writers. As with many such eclectic places, it was discovered by the more well-heeled. Now it has fine dining, vineyards and luxury vacation homes. Another paradise lost?
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Most of the coast was rocky and most of the little coves on Waiheke Island were already occupied. In “To do with Horizons” Sam Hunt writes this about New Zealand beaches,<br /><br />“Why a man, a woman and child<br />stand on a beach<br />throw stones out to sea?<br /><br />It’s a flint-stoned beach –<br />they are well armed –<br />this could go on for weeks.<br /><br />The enemy? must be<br />the sea<br />and all the sea<br /><br />Does to a man,<br />a woman and a child –<br />to do with horizons.”<br /><br />Or, it could just be like Ogden Nash said, “I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.” (Everybody’s Mind to Me a Kingdom Is)<br />
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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A last lump left where the land turns to sand.
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Beach Breach
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Gannet Island (also known as Horuhoru Rock) is reportedly host to 2500 pairs of Australasian Gannets. Most were apparently all out fishing when I flew by.
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Rocky Distraction
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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It’s easy to spot the parts that are wave-washed whiteless.
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White Capped Rock
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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The protective white-capped rock is being undercut by the waves. I’ve been told, “The sea will not be denied.”
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Future Batcave
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Only a dirty bird would bathe in such green pond scum.
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Big Bird Bath
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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The rocks that weren’t covered in white looked prefect for exploration with a magnifying hand lens. But, alas, there was no SeaRey beaching and the thought of being attacked by 5000 gannets with white bombs caused me to fly on.
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Low Rock
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Apparently there is no shortage of gannets in this part of New Zealand. Every remote island had marks of their parking.
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Bird Bumps
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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“Here clove the keels of centuries ago <br /> Where now unvisited the flats lie bare. <br /> Here seethed the sweep of journeying waters, where <br />No more the tumbling flats of Fundy flow, <br />And only in the samphire pipes creep slow <br /> The salty currents of the sap. The air <br /> Hums desolately with wings that seaward fare, <br />Over the lonely reaches beating low.<br />The wastes of hard and meagre weeds are thronged <br />With murmurs of a past that time has wronged; <br /> And ghosts of many an ancient memory <br />Dwell by the brackish pools and ditches blind, <br />In these low-lying pastures of the wind, <br /> These marshes pale and meadows by the sea.”<br /><br />From “The Salt Flats” by Sir Charles Roberts<br /><br />Gold was discovered nearby in 1852, but the gold rush was short lived. The prospecting ships are long gone. So are the Mâori canoes.<br />
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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The tiny town of Colville is a haven for “alternate lifestyles”. There were no yachts parked in the shallow mud bay.
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Flowing Flat
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” So says Sarah Kay, Poet. Could be the ocean is a boorish stalker?
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Tidal Waves
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
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Sweet Beach
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Not all the fun is on a beach. Backwater bays are perfect for SeaReys.
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Backwater Beaut
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Overshoot the green here and you may have to wrestle a sand shark for your golf ball.
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Golf Hazard
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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A fully integrated black and white sand beach.
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Spreading Flat
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Born in a volcanic blast, massive white ignimbrite makes for a bright cliff. It was formed from explosive pyroclastic flows. As the Latin derived name implies, it is born in a “fiery rock dust cloud.”
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Bright White Walls
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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A choice of beaches: little white rock beach or big white rock beach. The big rock in Cathedral Cove is the one with the funny name: Te Hoho Rock.
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White Rock Beaches
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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You can walk from one beach to the other without getting totally soaked, even at high tide.
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Beach Tunnel
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Eric Batterman - Apr 15,2014
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Dan Nickens - Apr 15,2014
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Ah, so there is a non-SeaRey reality!
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Eric Batterman - Apr 15,2014
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Pilots license is very high up on her list...(and her name is Robin)
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Dan Nickens - Apr 16,2014
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She should check out the North Shore airport, Eric. They had some interesting training aircraft and friendly people. If she is still in Auckland in October she is welcome to meet me for a SeaRey flight.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Frank A. Carr - Apr 15,2014
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Terrible bus ride to school, but nice photos!
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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The intricate coast provides ample hiding holes modern for jet-ski Speedo wearing pirates.
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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This would certainly be in the running for the Scenic Farm of the Month Club.
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Coastal Farm
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Statistically this is one of the most dangerous beaches in NZ due to rip currents, that doesn’t keep people from flocking to the hot, wet sand for a good butt burn. Courtesy of a shallowly submerged hot spring, a quick shoveling of sand creates a natural hot tub and spa. The key to temperature regulation is to pick a spot where cooling water from the Pacific can mix with the really hot water oozing up from below.
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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The industrious citizens of Tairua have almost created a moat around their mountain. All it would take is one good high tide to turn their tombolo into an island. If they really understood the way wave refraction and sediment deposition is responsible for their land connection, would they bother dredging? Seems like they will have a never ending task.
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Sometimes the colours appearing just outside my windscreen seem too brilliant to be anything other than an abstract water color!
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Deep Blue Green
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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It would take a lot of zigging and zagging to drive down to this little beach. That might be the safest way, though. The waves looked a bit sporting for SeaRey access.
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Bit of Beach
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Dan Nickens - Mar 29,2014
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Mount Maunganui is a large rhyolite lava dome that arose several million years old. The name means “caught by the dawn.” In Mâori legend, the mountain decided to drown itself because of a hopeless love. He called upon the night-dwelling fairy people to pull him out to sea and his death. They tried, but it proved too big a task. The fairies retreated in the face of the sun’s early rays, leaving the love forsaken mountain stuck in between the land and the sea.<br /><br />I could relate to being stuck in Taraunga. A few easy days of hanging out at the airport didn’t seem too bad a fate though.<br />
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Don Maxwell - Mar 29,2014
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Especially interesting light in this shot, Dan. It looks both bright and hazy. Is that a road spiraling up to the top of the dome?
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Don Maxwell - Mar 29,2014
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Oh, yeah. I got curious and found it in GoogleMaps. The spiral road is clearly visible. It's also easy to see the place in context when looking straight down on it. Somehow I hadn't realized how much of New Zealand is harbors.
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