#taihape

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

Ben from Comms here. Well… The Hoff rumours were true!

We've got more photos and videos, but we'll hold off sharing these until the show he's filming airs.

A day that Taihape will remember for a long time! (And probably one he will too in fairness)

Source: Rangitīkei District Council on instagram

[roadsconnoisseur]

New Zealand North Island Adventure day 3: Taupo -> Wellington - Explored the town next to Lake Taupo. Couldn’t do the Huka Waterfall Track due to time and energy limits. Stopped at Lake Taupo Full Moon Lookout near Motutere, Gumboot Sculpture at Taihape, Foxton and arrived Wellington early enough to get dinner. It’s very windy here. Would stay 2 days to navigate around by foot or short drives. #taupo #laketaupo #taihape #gumbootsculpture #streetart #foxton #northislandnz #newzealand #roadtrip (at Wellington, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqAkz-gvljI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[violetsandshrikes]

1980s New Zealand, where being gay means hiding in plain sight and local homophobes, backed by the Far Right churches of Reagan’s America, are hell bent on destroying any liberal fantasies of change. With money and power behind them, they wage open warfare on New Zealanders fighting for their right to be different.

We know the broad political story of how homosexual law reform was won in the 1980s, but we don’t often hear the voices of the amazing men and women who lived it. The gritty activists who were spat at and reviled, who risked jail and losing their families. They fought both local and international hatred, taking to the streets in anger and in celebration. "Cynthia Bagwash" who disrupted meetings in her stylish fox-fur and white gloves, the lusty anthem singers harassing Salvation Army anti-reform petitioners, the heartbroken nurses working in the AIDS wards, and the man tasked with bringing his cousin’s body back to the marae.

Would be grateful if anyone could boost! These guys are trying to get funding for this documentary about the fight for gay rights in 1980s Aotearoa.

The director, Welby Ings (Punch 2022, Sparrow 2016, Boy 2005, long listed for the Oscars ) knows the story intimately. In the early 80s, he started his small town’s three person pressure group, Gay Rights of Taihape ( GROT ). Arrested several times and with his teaching career under threat, he threw himself into the national campaign, protesting, infiltrating and interfering as much as possible with the opposition.

[have-you-been-here]

Giant gumboot, Taihape, New Zealand

[misplacedmidlanders]

Thursday, May 9th 2024. Ohakune > Wellington.

Like my mobile phone when I'm expecting a call, today was a Ring-less day. Our planned visit to Mangawhero Falls was unfortunately cancelled due to ice on the roads (apparently it's unsafe to drive several hundred feet up a mountainside in these conditions, but that's news to me). 

Jake and I are looking at making this visit ourselves when we have the campervan in week three, so the ice better be gone by then otherwise we're wrapping chains around the tyres and Fury Road-ing our way up this goddamn mountain (we're looking for a volunteer to strap to the front of the van, please let us know if you're interested in applying).

So instead, we journeyed south towards the capital, Wellington, making stops at Ohakune (a small town), Taihape (a small town) and Levin (also a small town). Most of these towns were actually quite similar to places in the UK - in fact if you took the nice parts of Loughborough and streched these across a single road (and removed the yobs) they would look almost the same.

We'll be staying in Wellington for the next few nights, and we're visiting Weta Workshop tomorrow, so expect some more re-enactments of your favourite LOTR moments by a pair of sleep-deprived 30 year-olds.

[aonoexpat]

Road trip - day 1

07-04-2023

Getting up at 05:30 in the morning is definitely not for me, but I did it anyway because today marks the first day of our road trip up Te Ikaroa, Aotearoa's North Island! I managed to catch up on sleep in the car despite Aotearoa traffic being quite chaotic. The rolling hills left and right gave me a preview of the Shire-vibe I'm likely to get when we visit Hobbiton in a couple of days, which I'm very excited about!

Our first stop was Taihape, where we did a brief hike up to a viewpoint:

Our second stop was our campsite near Taupō-nui-a-Tia, or Lake Taupō, with its 616 square kilometre Aotearoa's largest lake by surface area.

As the lake is a volcanic crater (currently at alert level 2 out of 3), the beach is black and glittery and riddled with pumice along the flood line of the lake: a super brittle, porous, light type of volcanic rock that floats and is apparently used as a natural exfoliation tool :)

We drove the whole road around the lake, stopping off for some spectacular views at Huka falls:

I'm currently in my tent in three layers of clothing and a sleeping bag, hoping to make it through the cold night comfortably enough. I'm excited for tomorrow!

[n0isemaker]

Anytime I see a femboy pic they always just makes me think of jack black and dave grohl music video where they go to the motel and dress up and have the time of their lives and it makes me so happy. Then my brain is like "aww man, now I want to write a really heartfelt film about like 2 guys doing that but instead of brokeback mountain its like brokeback taihape and they're super loveable hicks in a small town but like its the worst kept secret and everyone is secretly like supportive of them".

Thanks brain.

[newzealandrail]

Kiwirail DL Class, Taihape, 2023

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Robin Street, Taihape, Aotearoa New Zealand, slide developed February 1967 (photographer unknown)

[the-sky-is-my-palace]

Neon by night 01.04.2018

[taihapepolicenx-blog]

#taihape #taihapenz #taihapegumboot #taihaperoad #taihapechristmasparade2016 #taihapei #taihapehalfmarathon #taihapegumbootday #taihaperugby #taihapeteam #taihapeshow #taihapebound #taihapelife #taihaperron #taihapecollege #taihapegym #taihapedays #taihapeboys #taihapechristmasparade2017 #taihapenewzealand #taihapefoodbowl #taihapenapierroad #taihapetreasure #taihapetonapier #taihapewivesclub #taihaperocks #taihapesummer #taihapeicon #taihapeareaschool #taihapetimes https://www.instagram.com/p/BymB28CgwS9/?igshid=4c9e3qdm0xmv

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

Fan photo with Rhys Darby at Taihape last week!

[taihapepolice]

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[editfulla]

Saw plenty of snow on my travels today from Palmerston North via Taihape to Napier to visit my bro #bro #brother #napier #taihape #nz #snow #travel #4wd (at Erehwon, New Zealand)

[mikecom36]

#Repost @southpac_trucks • • • • • Hautapu Haulage Ltd based Utiku, just south of Taihape has bought another Kenworth T659 8x4. T659 8x4 is Cummins X15 powered rated at 600Hp, with an Eaton Roadranger 18 speed, Meritor axles all round. Features: Stainless visor, stainless extras and lights, twin raised air- intakes and twin exhausts, gold gauge bezels, Hands-free phone connection. The T659 tows an Evans 5 axle multi bolster trailer to 54,000kg Owners Kevin and Katrina O’Brian operate a number of loggers and have been running their own separate business now since 2005 as Hautapu Haulage Ltd. The transport side of the business was originally under the Hautapu Pine Ltd banner and running trucks from the yard on State H/way 1 north of Taihape they found that the transport side was growing and required separate identity. • #Kenworth #T659 #kenwortht659 #Kenworthtrucks #truck #kenworthtrucks2020 #kenworthtrucksofinstagram #Kenworthsofinstagram #kenworthtrucksofnewzealand #kenworthsofnewzealand #kenworthsdaily #trucks #hautapuhaulage #utiku #taihape #newzealand #southpac #truckandtrailer #truckphotos #truckpictures #kwtweek2029 (at Southpac Trucks Ltd) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCo3RhEJ1sc/?igshid=q695syrc4w2q

[theninjazebra]