Occasionally Auckland Sketchbook escapes the city to somewhere interesting — and close. This time the sketchbook got a workout in The Bay of Islands . Only 3.5 hours by car and a world away from work. The sketch above was made in down-town Paihia, it doesn't look it, but it is literally behind the main street. The view is the back of an old homestead called Williams House . I was attracted by the orchard of very old fig trees on the left that had me imagining eating juicy ripe figs. Sadly they weren't in season but it must be a fun place at harvest time. Right over the other side of the bay you will find his falling down old house on Matauwhi Bay. For a while there the water had a turquoise glow until the sun went into hiding. This is Pompallier House and Clendon Cottage in Russell sketched with my back to the sea. I may have used a little too much artistic licence in moving them close enough together to fit on my page so don't look too closely. Anyway, I have sketched Po...
One of Auckland's oldest surviving pubs, the Birdcage Tavern (1884) is about to move — 40 metres up the road, while a motorway tunnel is created beneath the site. A motorway viaduct already runs within metres of the building visible at the top left and surrounded by a major intersection on ground level.
The building will be bumped up the road on runway beams by hydraulic arms — then moved back again once the tunnel is completed sometime in 2012.
The building will be bumped up the road on runway beams by hydraulic arms — then moved back again once the tunnel is completed sometime in 2012.
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