Folks,

The Palmerston North club is going to spend some time poking

about in the rock pools down at Pukeura Bay on Sunday the

15th of Feb. If anyone wants to join us they'd be more than

welcome. It's pretty much a 'bring your own everything' kind

of deal.

Contact me for more info.

Happy to shuttle fish etc from PN to anyone who can meet us in

Pukeura Bay or vice versa if that's useful to anyone.

Andrew.

Pukerua Bay...Hey, That's near me, isn't it? I'll have to see if I can meet you guys there then!

Hmmm... Marine tank stock Ira??

Ira said...

> Pukerua Bay...Hey, That's near me, isn't it?

That bit of coast opposite (ish) Kapiti Island, between

Paramata and Paekakariki.

> I'll have to see if I can meet you guys there then!

You'd be most welcome, of course.

Andrew.

That's what I was thinking, Warren. Pick up more glass shrimp and some hermit crabs.

Andrew, I've been collecting my water from pukerua bay. Only made one trip for water so far though. There's a pullout right where the road meets the coast heading from wellington area. Seems like a fairly easy spot to get water. It can't be too far from where you guys are planning on going.

So it is Pukerua and not Pukeura then?...

paddy_whack said...

> So it is Pukerua and not Pukeura then?...

It's Pukerua Bay, near Wellington. People near there will know

where I mean.

Andrew.

Ira said...

> There's a pullout right where the road meets the coast heading

> from wellington area. Seems like a fairly easy spot to get water.

> It can't be too far from where you guys are planning on going.

I know where you mean and that's the kind of place we had in mind.

Since we're coming from the north we might stop at an earlier one,

or else there's an interesting spot just past that (heading south)

where the sea is not visible but you turn off the main road towards it.

I've seen geckoes etc there as well as the usual sea-life.

Paraparaumu is only 15min or so up the road, it'd be great if

you could meet us there, Ira, so we could all stick together.

Otherwise, as I said earlier, I'll have my cell phone with me.

Andrew.

Where in Paraparararumumumu would be best to meet? I'm not particularly familiar with the area. PM me your cellphone number, just in case?

it sounds like SH1 heading north out of wellington is going to be completly overrun with fishy people on sunday!

if i have to drive past one activity to get to the other one... well, why not indeed

bugger, looks like i got the dates wrong... still, nice thought!

Ira said...

> Where in Paraparararumumumu would be best to meet?

We're meeting at the KFC at 11:00, Sunday 15th. Can't miss it

on your left as you come into (Para)*2umu*1

> PM me your cellphone number, just in case?

Done.

Andrew.

It's not looking at all promising for good weather tomorrow. But, I'm going anyway if anyone else shows up.

i'm sitting here in kingston hoping that you are all still with us if you went out - the wind is so strong you can taste the cook straight spray and i have had to tie almost everything down, even considered the car...

Dark said...

> i'm sitting here in kingston hoping that you are all still

> with us if you went out

We did and we are. A good time was had by all who turned up.

We caught heaps of things. A web page of the photos isn't far

away.

It was good to see Ira and his tank got a few new occupants.

> ... i have had to tie almost everything down...

The roof on my sleepout carport is looking a bit sad, that's for

sure...

Andrew.

whoops I missed this one, did you get out there at all? Fromt he weather here its pretty ratty so usually ont he outgoing tide its ratty there from our place.

Getting there and back wasn't a problem, for me anyway. The problem was that half an hour after I got back the power went out. So I had 12 hours of stirring the tanks with spoons to give them a bit of airation. All except my biggest cooled down to around 21°. Only losses at the moment seem to be 3 cardinals (WHY?!? the hell do I always lose ALL the cardinals?) The backyard was flooded to about 3-4" deep, a nice big river going past the house. When Bridget was coming home from work at 7am the highway was closed off because of flooding, Lower Hutt is apparently totally flooded, all the bridges over the river are closed, took her an hour to get to Upper Hutt and she had to drive through flooding that was up to the 200SX's bumper. Cops have totally shut down any traffic headed towards Wellington. The road up the hill home was covered with slips, flooding and waterfalls. The inlaws who live about 5Ks up the road are stuck at home because the road is blocked off both directions.

Isn't it supposed to be hot and dry this time of year?

Oh, and it was nice seeing you and everyone else too, Andrew...(Except the canadians, hehe Just kidding)

Earlier I said...

> A web page of the photos isn't far away.

And here it is, go to the 'critters' link here:

http://www.oxalis.50megs.com

Sorry about the pop-ups etc, eventually I'll get my own site

that doesn't need ads...

Thanks to Ang for the HTML.

Andrew.

Looks like you found a range of things Andrew - some of the alternate text for the images was amusing

Some great pix there - I love the blue tentacled thingy 8)

Rob said...

> ... some of the alternate text for the images was amusing ...

If anyone knows the real names for any of the critters pictured

then we'd be very happy to re-badge the pictures.

Andrew.

Rob said...

> ... some of the alternate text for the images was amusing ...

If anyone knows the real names for any of the critters pictured

then we'd be very happy to re-badge the pictures.

Andrew.

Nice pics andrew. some of those critters look interesting

Chris.L said...

> Nice pics andrew.

Considering they were done pretty quickly using a relatively

cheap digital camera (CANON A40) I'm pretty happy with the

way they came out.

Remember, this is last Sunday which was the beginning of the

nasty weather that has closed down much of the lower north

island...

Next year, we'll have to go look at the other coast I think, to

see what we can find there.

Andrew.

I think that long starfish you have is of the pest variety, one thing that there is around the mana wharf is a little black bully sort of a cross between a bully and a knife fish. Never seen anything like it anywhere else.