#kawau

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Inspired by the recent storms, here's a great cormorant facing the wind.

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NIKON CORPORATION COOLPIX A1000

ƒ/6.31/16008 mmISO100

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Kawau Bay

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ESCAPING SLOWLY

[daily-hyosatsu]

Something a little different today! This plaque reads 忍川上橋, or Upper Oshikawa Bridge (or Upper Shinobukawa Bridge, just not at this specific river).

The upper/upstream part comes from 川上 [かわかみ]. (Remember 川下 [かわしも], meaning downstream, from yesterday?) Plus, 川上 can also be a surname, usually read Kawakami, rarely Kawaue or Kawanoue.

忍 is new to this blog, but you might know it from words like 忍者 ninja. It means to endure or bear, or to conceal, sneak, or spy. It's read しの.ぶ, しの.ばせる, or ニン. The radicals are 刃 blade/edge and 心 heart/mind.

川 means river. It's read かわ or セン.

上 means up, above, or raise. It has lots of readings, which I've broken down by meaning here.

橋 means bridge. It’s read はし or キョウ.

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Perhaps one of the most well-known and beloved ferries in Aotearoa was Waitere, aka the Blue Ferry.

Built by the E. R. Lane boatyard for Faulkner Bros Ltd's Tauranga-Mt. Maunganui service in 1944, its construction had taken 2 years owing to material shortages.

In 1987, it was sold to Ivan Frost in Tāmaki Makaurau, and by 1988, it was running excursions in the harbour.

By the end of the decade, the owner of The Blue Ferry Ltd was considering retiring, and taking the Paihia-Rusell service, he had been running with Kawau Isle with him.

Sensing an opportunity, Ivan moved Waitere up to the Bay of Islands and relaunched the Blue Ferry service. He would be proven right, as Fullers Bay of Islands would have reliability issues with Bay Belle and thanks to the district council his service, alongside the White and Green Ferries would be allowed to operate to a 20 minute schedule. A timetable that has continued to present.

Unfortunately, on the 13th of April 2023, the recreational vessel Onepoto would ram into the Waitere broadside at a speed of 20.5 kn, causing the vessel to sink and critically injuring the skipper Bill Elliot, who had taken over from Ivan in '98.

The investigation found both vessels at fault as neither skipper had an appropriate watch posted. The Waitere will never sail again as the sinking catastrophically . the vessel.

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What if squid squad got sanitized? + how they got sanitized and name meaning

Okay so they were on the deep sea metro for a performance and suddenly someone fell through the roof of the train and pop their sanitized now erjghqrekfheqrkj

Yaketa (Namida) Yaketa comes from the Japanese word “Burnt”, Namidas name means tears which Japanese chefs use to describe wasabi and another way to describe something spicy is by the feeling that your tongue is burning, hence the name Yaketa

Kurai (Ichiya) comes from the Japanese word for “Dark”, Ichihara name is based off the nighttime (I think?) and the nighttime is dark (get it?)

Chumon (Ikkan) I’m pretty sure his name ikkan means 2 things that don’t go together (I’m not sure….?) but Chumon means Order in Japanese so it’s like the opposite

Kawau (Murasaki) comes from the Japanese name for a otter, since a sea urchins natural enemy is a otter (according to Google)

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[skermit]

INKTOBIRDSNZ DAY 13-16

Day 13: Pūtangitangi/Paradise Shelduck

Day 14: Tarāpuka/Black-Billed Gull

Day 15: Matuku Moana/White-Faced Heron

Day 16: Kawau Tuī/Little Black Shag

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Wildlife of Aotearoa: Tūī, Kawau, Tuatara, Kākā, Takahē, Koera, and another Kawau

Canon EOS Rebel 800D, EFS 55-250mm IS & EFS 18-55mm IS lenses

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#1987 - Phalacrocorax carbo - Great Black Cormorant

Photo by JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

AKA the black shag or kawau in New Zealand, the black cormorant in Australia, and the large cormorant in India. Native to large parts of the Old World, the Atlantic coast of North America, and Australasia. The scientific name is Latinised Ancient Greek, from phalakros ("bald"), korax, ("raven"), and the Latin carbo for "charcoal". The common name for the birds is a derivation from medieval Latin corvus marinus meaning ‘sea raven’. Five subspecies are recognised, although some authors promote them to full species in a species complex.

Most fond of permanent freshwater, but also frequents estuaries and inlets, where they can swim down at least 35m to feed on bottom-dwelling fish, amphibians, and invertebrates.

Breeding colonies may number 20,000 birds, and pairs return to the same site each year.

In many parts of the world, cormorants are considered competitors for fish, and were hunted to near extinction. Elsewhere, their fishing skills were put to use - a ring fitted around the neck to prevent them swallowing larger prey, which the fisherman could remove by opening the beak. In Norway the birds are hunted for food, despite being considered semi-sacred and in some legends the spirits of those lost far out to sea.

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Orange Records - Variété design by Yuko Kawaue and Tomonao Tanaka under the Gouache label

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NIKON CORPORATION COOLPIX A1000

ƒ/6.31/16008 mmISO100

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Scandrett Regional Park, as close as I could get to Mullet Point, looking at Kawau Bay

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RETREAT TO AUCKLAND

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Wallaby de Parma - On pensait l’espèce éteinte à la fin du XIX siècle. Mais en 1965, une population fut découverte sur l’île de Kawau, près d'Auckland en Nouvelle Zélande, puis une autre 2 ans plus tard dans les forêts du New South Wales en Australie.

Lieu : Zoo de Lille

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Fullers360's Te Maki and D1 berthed at Westhaven earlier this week.

Both ferries are ex-Explore Group (Fullers GreatSights), however, D1's history diverges from Te Maki.

Built by Roberston Boats in 1993, I believe D1 was originally named Kawau Kat and was delivered to 360 Discovery Cruises.

At some point, Kawau Kat became Discovery 1, presumably around the same time Discovery II and III were delivered*.

It was sold to Explore Group and spent a spell with Fullers GreatSights in the Bay of Islands. By 2022, it was in regular Explore Group livery and was back in Tāmaki. It seems to have been renamed D1 by this point.

In 2023 it came full circle and was sold to Fullers360, and repainted in the then new Fullers livery.

It appears to have done limited service and then no service whatsoever. I can not help but wonder if D1 was the ferry that experienced an engine room 'incident' in 2023. But in lieu of any concrete evidence, we can assume D1 is simply a reserve vessel or can not be crewed due to staff shortages.

*DII, DIII, and DIV seem to be the only ones named with Roman numerals.