Hi there
All through the Christmas/New Year period I've been swimming at Worser Bay. I really enjoyed going to that beach. It was like I had gone somewhere else on holiday. What's that saying? - something about Viva la Difference?
But yesterday I did go back to Hataitai Beach. Into the water, swam half a dozen or so lengths, had a bit of a frolic, swallowed a mouthful of sea water when an unexpected wave hit me..
I got home and took a bit-of-a-late look at the LAWA (Land, Air, Water, Atmosphere) website. Oops, the site advised caution when swimming at practically every beach in the Wellington area.
For days they had been giving me the all clear ("Suitable for Swimming" had replaced "Not Suitable for Swimming" - curses on that broken sewage pipe at Oriental Bay). But now old people, and the young were being advised not to swim?
I wonder how bad swallowing a mouthful of contaminated sea water truly is for a body?
Showing posts with label Oriental Bay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oriental Bay. Show all posts
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Easter Parade
Hi there
When my mother was a young lady (in the early 1900's) she used to promenade up and down the seafront at Oriental Bay, on Easter Sunday. Practically all of Wellington turned out in their Easter finery. And I don't mean bunny onesies.
Have a look at the above segment from the movie "Easter Parade" and you'll get the idea. Even in New Zealand at that time, fashion was important.
The movie is just about my favourite film musical. I love it very much.
Happy Easter!
Above: Oriental Bay.
When my mother was a young lady (in the early 1900's) she used to promenade up and down the seafront at Oriental Bay, on Easter Sunday. Practically all of Wellington turned out in their Easter finery. And I don't mean bunny onesies.
Have a look at the above segment from the movie "Easter Parade" and you'll get the idea. Even in New Zealand at that time, fashion was important.
The movie is just about my favourite film musical. I love it very much.
Happy Easter!
Above: Oriental Bay.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand (plus NZ's Got Talent)
Hi there
Wellington is famous for not only the wind, but its hills, too. Tourists often wonder about how houses are built in such precarious positions. I think we resemble San Francisco a great deal. I believe people in San Francisco call their beautiful old houses Painted Ladies. We have lots of Painted Ladies around Wellington. My favourite ones are in Oriental Bay.
A friend's husband is on New Zealand's Got Talent semi-finals tonight (Sunday NZ time) and can be voted for up until Monday night - details on TVNZ's NZGT websiite or KurtX.com. He is KurtX and plays a re-adjusted harmonica. He will also be performing tomorrow Monday 18 Nov 12.30-1.30 pm outside Telecom, 50 Willis street.
Oriental Bay.
Wellington is famous for not only the wind, but its hills, too. Tourists often wonder about how houses are built in such precarious positions. I think we resemble San Francisco a great deal. I believe people in San Francisco call their beautiful old houses Painted Ladies. We have lots of Painted Ladies around Wellington. My favourite ones are in Oriental Bay.
A friend's husband is on New Zealand's Got Talent semi-finals tonight (Sunday NZ time) and can be voted for up until Monday night - details on TVNZ's NZGT websiite or KurtX.com. He is KurtX and plays a re-adjusted harmonica. He will also be performing tomorrow Monday 18 Nov 12.30-1.30 pm outside Telecom, 50 Willis street.
Oriental Bay.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Mexican Restaurant in Miramar
Hi there
A couple of years' back, a Mexican cafe opened in Miramar, Wellington, where I live. It's called La Boca Loca and is a casual dining place. It is extremely popular with workers from the Peter Jackson empire - Weta, Post-Production, Workshop, Admin, studio, etc. There are a lot of American workers at Weta and they have probably been starved for good Mexican food. Up until about 5 years' ago there weren't any Mexican places to eat in Wellington. Now, there are a few.
I believe a guy who worked at Weta convinced a Mexican chef/friend to come over from America and, together, they started La Boca Loca.
La Boca Loca is a hop, skip, and jump away from the Roxy Theatre owned by Oscar winners Tania Roger and Jamie Selkirk. Lots of folk go to La Boca Loca for a meal before the movies.
Here's a little secret: I've never tasted Mexican food. How embarrassing.
Even when Mexican food weighed down the buffet tables in Las Vegas, I bypassed it. Old stick-in-the-mud me stayed with the same old tried and true stuff that I was used to. I am so silly. I promise I will try out La Boca Loca ..... one day. Oh, and I'm off to Las Vegas again at the end of the year. I promise-promise-promise to try Mexican food.
P.S.: J and I have now done 11 swims for April. About 25-minute swims all through the month. We notice in the newspaper that there is a picture of people swimming at Oriental Bay in Wellington, and we're quite miffed over this. Darn this almost-summer weather, J and I wanted to stand out as The Brave Ones.
A couple of years' back, a Mexican cafe opened in Miramar, Wellington, where I live. It's called La Boca Loca and is a casual dining place. It is extremely popular with workers from the Peter Jackson empire - Weta, Post-Production, Workshop, Admin, studio, etc. There are a lot of American workers at Weta and they have probably been starved for good Mexican food. Up until about 5 years' ago there weren't any Mexican places to eat in Wellington. Now, there are a few.
I believe a guy who worked at Weta convinced a Mexican chef/friend to come over from America and, together, they started La Boca Loca.
La Boca Loca is a hop, skip, and jump away from the Roxy Theatre owned by Oscar winners Tania Roger and Jamie Selkirk. Lots of folk go to La Boca Loca for a meal before the movies.
Here's a little secret: I've never tasted Mexican food. How embarrassing.
Even when Mexican food weighed down the buffet tables in Las Vegas, I bypassed it. Old stick-in-the-mud me stayed with the same old tried and true stuff that I was used to. I am so silly. I promise I will try out La Boca Loca ..... one day. Oh, and I'm off to Las Vegas again at the end of the year. I promise-promise-promise to try Mexican food.
P.S.: J and I have now done 11 swims for April. About 25-minute swims all through the month. We notice in the newspaper that there is a picture of people swimming at Oriental Bay in Wellington, and we're quite miffed over this. Darn this almost-summer weather, J and I wanted to stand out as The Brave Ones.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!!!!!
Well, another year has gone by, and another year ahead of us. So, happy new year to the two people who read this blog! If I thought for one moment that more than 2 people were reading this, I would scream with embarrassment, quickly slam shut the laptop lid ,and never sign in to the site again.
Every year, more and more of my fave film stars and singers that I loved as I was growing up, are dying. They were all, maybe, just a little bit older than me, or the same age. How sad.
When I was a young teen, I fell in love with James Darren. I first saw him in "Gidget". Goodness, I loved him so much (he came third, in my estimation, after Elvis Presley and Sal Mineo). I was so happy when he got a leading role in a Star Trek series. When I was in Las Vegas three years ago, I paid (yes, yes, I did, I did!!!) to have a Star Trek "Beam Me Up" Breakfast with him and about 50 other fans. He moved from table to table to talk to us, a bit like speed dating, probably. Because the others on the table knew how much I adored him, they let me monopolise him. And, do you know what? He is just as gorgeous now as he ever was back in the early 60's. I also went to a show of his where he sang a whole lot of Sinatra-type songs, and he was totally divine. (Totally divine? Goodness I've retro'd back to the 40's).
I've been doing a lot of reading these holidays on Kindle. For the first 6 months I only bought free books, then I wandered up into the $1.99 league and, oh dear, now I'm spending $2.99. Where will this addiction end?
I went swimming this morning (January 2, NZ time). The waves were ferocious around Oriental Bay and there was nobody there, but at Hataitai Beach it was quite calm. If J and I are swimming separately we try to write messages on the floor of the changing sheds to tell each other that we've been there. Last week, apparently, J spent some time sculpting her initials with twigs and shells and leaving it on one of the seats in the changing rooms - a piece of artistic work I missed completely.
We've completed our "at least 5 swims a month for 2012. I am so happy and excited about this. J presented me with my certificate - she has one, too - and the annual cup. What a weight of our minds. What will be this year's challenge, I wonder?
Every year, more and more of my fave film stars and singers that I loved as I was growing up, are dying. They were all, maybe, just a little bit older than me, or the same age. How sad.
When I was a young teen, I fell in love with James Darren. I first saw him in "Gidget". Goodness, I loved him so much (he came third, in my estimation, after Elvis Presley and Sal Mineo). I was so happy when he got a leading role in a Star Trek series. When I was in Las Vegas three years ago, I paid (yes, yes, I did, I did!!!) to have a Star Trek "Beam Me Up" Breakfast with him and about 50 other fans. He moved from table to table to talk to us, a bit like speed dating, probably. Because the others on the table knew how much I adored him, they let me monopolise him. And, do you know what? He is just as gorgeous now as he ever was back in the early 60's. I also went to a show of his where he sang a whole lot of Sinatra-type songs, and he was totally divine. (Totally divine? Goodness I've retro'd back to the 40's).
I've been doing a lot of reading these holidays on Kindle. For the first 6 months I only bought free books, then I wandered up into the $1.99 league and, oh dear, now I'm spending $2.99. Where will this addiction end?
I went swimming this morning (January 2, NZ time). The waves were ferocious around Oriental Bay and there was nobody there, but at Hataitai Beach it was quite calm. If J and I are swimming separately we try to write messages on the floor of the changing sheds to tell each other that we've been there. Last week, apparently, J spent some time sculpting her initials with twigs and shells and leaving it on one of the seats in the changing rooms - a piece of artistic work I missed completely.
We've completed our "at least 5 swims a month for 2012. I am so happy and excited about this. J presented me with my certificate - she has one, too - and the annual cup. What a weight of our minds. What will be this year's challenge, I wonder?
Friday, September 21, 2012
A Walk in the Hills
I went for a lovely walk yesterday, over the Hataitai hill to Oriental Bay. Sometimes I listen to an audio book on my MP3 player and sometimes I just love to walk, think, and admire the views. When I took the below photos, I was standing roughly above Balaena Bay (I don't mean I was roughly standing - otherwise I'd have been perching on uneven ground. No, I mean that Baleana Bay was roughly situated below where I was standing to take the pictures! Goodness, I always get tangled up trying to explain things, forgive me....)
In the top picture you can see Matiu-Somes Island which is in the middle of Wellington Harbour. There's a nice ferry ride that goes there daily from the city. Even nicer, and very cheaply too, you can hop off at the island, look around, catch another ferry to Days Bay, look around, then return to the city (SuperGold card holders, free - thanks, Winston!). At certain times, certain days, the ferry also goes to Petone and Seatoun.
I love to take a picnic lunch with me to Oriental Bay, sit on a seat with my feet up on the fence and watch the fountain playing, the people, and the kids, and the bicycles, and skaters. Oriental Bay is so close to the city, that tourists like to wander there. It's great for them to walk around the wharves to the Bay. Only takes, perhaps, half an hour, and is as safe as houses.
Way back in my grandmother's day, when Wellington was very young, Oriental Bay was the place to promenade. Every Sunday, people would dress up in their fancy finery and parade up and down. I often think it wuld be great to have an Easter Parade day, with folk promenading Oriental Bay again. We could dress up in everyone's idea of 'nice', be it clothes from the 1800's, modern, whatever. Chocolate bar prizes, say, could be handed out by Wellington City Council staff to people, kids, dogs, dolls, whose styles impress!
People already happily promenade in their hundreds on a fine day around Oriental Bay, and I do wish we could have a special occasion to really go all out
.
There is an absolutely positively delicious song by the Datsun Violets called "You Can't Beat Wellington (on a Good Day)" that can be heard on youtube. Scenery-wise, happiness-wise, and weather-wise this is so true!
In the top picture you can see Matiu-Somes Island which is in the middle of Wellington Harbour. There's a nice ferry ride that goes there daily from the city. Even nicer, and very cheaply too, you can hop off at the island, look around, catch another ferry to Days Bay, look around, then return to the city (SuperGold card holders, free - thanks, Winston!). At certain times, certain days, the ferry also goes to Petone and Seatoun.
I love to take a picnic lunch with me to Oriental Bay, sit on a seat with my feet up on the fence and watch the fountain playing, the people, and the kids, and the bicycles, and skaters. Oriental Bay is so close to the city, that tourists like to wander there. It's great for them to walk around the wharves to the Bay. Only takes, perhaps, half an hour, and is as safe as houses.
Way back in my grandmother's day, when Wellington was very young, Oriental Bay was the place to promenade. Every Sunday, people would dress up in their fancy finery and parade up and down. I often think it wuld be great to have an Easter Parade day, with folk promenading Oriental Bay again. We could dress up in everyone's idea of 'nice', be it clothes from the 1800's, modern, whatever. Chocolate bar prizes, say, could be handed out by Wellington City Council staff to people, kids, dogs, dolls, whose styles impress!
People already happily promenade in their hundreds on a fine day around Oriental Bay, and I do wish we could have a special occasion to really go all out
.
There is an absolutely positively delicious song by the Datsun Violets called "You Can't Beat Wellington (on a Good Day)" that can be heard on youtube. Scenery-wise, happiness-wise, and weather-wise this is so true!
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