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Snow in Auckland

It snowed in Auckland for the first time in 72 years, so todays clear sunny day is great! Much warmer too at a positively barmy 13 degrees celsius. This is the view from North Head over Devonport to the port and city behind. Below a vessel leaving port with Browns island/Motukorea behind.

Forecast for snow on the ranges in Auckland today!

So thoughts go to somewhere warmer! Some sketches from a few days in Tahiti last year...
Temae Beach...



View over pool to Moorea

Papeete - Cathedral Notre Dame and Marche de Papeete...

Bus trip, Puna'auia...

Old is New in Auckland

By now you've probably heard about or seen the changes down at the Wynyard Quarter on Auckland's revitalised waterfront which officially opened on Saturday morning. There is so much fantastic new stuff to check out down there I guarantee I'll be back with more sketches of the area soon.

Something that's interesting though is the amount of old stuff that's part of the development. For a start there are the trams that return after an absence of over 50 years, they look great in 'carnation red', apparently the colour of our original trams, I got a sketch as they left their shed on Packenham Street first thing yesterday...

Other old stuff includes Silo park comprising the historic silos on the western end of Jellicoe Street (apparently kept as a nod to the areas industrial past). If you got a chance to climb to the top on opening day you would have had a spectacular view of the whole area including the old sheds (redeveloped as funky restaurants and bars),  Michio Ihara's reinstated Wind Tree sculpture, and old fishing bouys repainted and arranged jauntily about the place.