#New Zealand gisborne

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Street scene in Gisborne, New Zealand

British vintage postcard

[musings-of-a-kiwafruit]

Karanga mai,

e te moana o aku tīpuna

Ka huri au, ka rongo ki a Tangaroa

Ka hurihia, ka pūawhehia au e Tāwhiri-mātea

Whakatakina ai aku tātai

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Call me forth

The ocean of my ancestors

I turn to, I listen to/sense Tangaroa [God of the Ocean]

I am turned and blown about Tāwhiri-mātea [God of the Wind]

In search of my heritage / Reciting my lineage

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New Zealand cities ranked

The vast majority of iconic New Zealand is rural / wilderness, while the vast majority of the population live in the cities. While little of their built environment is beautiful, there are still many attractions in our largest cities. I’ve spent time in the twenty largest (according to Wikipedia), visiting all bar two (Whanganui and Hastings) multiple times, and this is how I would rank them as…

[onekindredspirit]

“Man oh man I was FREE! Free to have a beer, have a smoke, happy, what you can call, all the time. They was free days”

This is Russian Jack or Barrett Crumen.

The only thing is, Russian Jack wasn’t Russian and his name wasn’t Barrett Crumen.

He was Latvian, born in the village of Alexandra in 1878 and his name was possibly Barnis Krumen.

He arrived in New Zealand on the night of June 23rd 1912 when, as a crewman on the British steamer Star of Canada, he was shipwrecked off the Gisborne coast during a wild Southern gale.

To save money, he decided to walk to Wellington city, a journey of some 600 kilometres.

He didn’t stop walking until ill health forced him off the road in 1965. 53 years of walking.

Russian Jack was a swagman or swagger.

The term swagger originated in Australia (“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, under the shade of a Coolibah tree…”) and describes an itinerant farm worker who carries all their worldly possessions on their back, in a ‘swag’. Russian Jack was reputed to carry the largest swag of all the swaggers. He did not beg, he worked and in his youth he was known for his strength.

There is a whole history of swaggers in New Zealand dating back to the hard times of the 1880’s.

But Russian Jack was the last swagger and, as it happened, walked the roads around where I live.

There was opposition to this statue. “It commemorates swaggers.” they said.  Others thought he didn’t deserve the honour.

Hahahaha

“Such a cool statue honouring freedom.” I said to myself as I walked by …

One Kindred Spirit

Reclaimed Blue Polaroids - One Kindred Spirit Colour Image - Margaret MacPherson (District Nurse) On the road near Waituna West, Manawatu 1960

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1952 DH.112 Venom in the air at the Gisborne Airshow, New Zealand

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World's Rarest Whale Washes Up On New Zealand Beach

The body of a spade-toothed whale — a species so rare it has never been seen alive — appears to have washed up on a New Zealand beach, scientists say.

The remains of the obscure, five-metre (16.4 foot) long, beaked creature were found near a river mouth in southern Otago province on July 4, government researchers said.

It was identified by marine-mammal experts from New Zealand’s Department of Conservation and the national museum, Te Papa, as a male spade-toothed whale.

A DNA investigation has been launched to confirm its classification, the scientists said.

“Spade-toothed whales are one of the most poorly known large mammalian species of modern times,” said the conservation department’s coastal Otago operations manager, Gabe Davies.

“Since the 1800s, only six samples have ever been documented worldwide, and all but one of these was from New Zealand,” Davies said in a statement Monday.

“From a scientific and conservation point of view, this is huge.”

The find was fresh enough to offer the first opportunity for a spade-toothed whale to be dissected, the conservation department said.

The species is “so rare next to nothing is known about them”, it said.

The body of the whale has been placed in cold storage and genetic samples have been sent to the University of Auckland as curators of the New Zealand Cetacean Tissue Archive.

It may take several weeks or months for the DNA to be processed and a final identification confirmed.

“The rarity of the whale means conversations around what to do next will take more time because it is a conversation of international importance,” the conservation department said.

The species was first described in 1874 from just a lower jaw and two teeth collected from the Chatham Islands off the east coast of New Zealand.

That sample, along with skeletal remains of two other specimens found in New Zealand and Chile, enabled scientists to confirm a new species.

Marine scientist Vanessa Pirotta said researchers would study the whale’s stomach contents, genetics, and how this sample compared to previous ones.

This could shine light on the whales’ behaviour, their population and why they are so rare, Pirotta told AFP, describing the discovery as “like hitting the jackpot”.

Because so few specimens have been found and there have been no live sightings, little is known about the spade-toothed whale and it is classified as “data deficient” under New Zealand’s Threat Classification System.

The first intact specimen was from a mother and calf stranding in Bay of Plenty in 2010, the New Zealand conservation department said.

A further stranding in 2017 in Gisborne added one more specimen to the collection.

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miscellaneous bugs volume 2

all bugs found in north island, new zealand.

gisborne cockroach in various stages of molting to become an adult.

two species of bag moth.

rainbow ant queen founding chamber. if you look closely, you can see her hiding.

drone fly. do not look up photos of their larvae.

garden orbweavers. bottom right is clutching a leaf beetle.

grey house spider.

ants made the unwise choice of nesting under a tile i had placed aside while gardening. they quickly moved out.

seed bug!

southern ants deploying many majors (the ones with fat heads) to tear apart insect exoskeleton.

teeny baby snail!!!

meant ants raising their abdomens in their aggresive fighting behaviour, mad i lifted up the mail box flap.

longhorn beetle.

little tim :)

that's all for now.

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