21st April 2019
With heavy rain forecast today, we got up early - to fog! But by 9 o'clock the sun and blue sky pierced through. We scurried around and got on our way - again through such pleasant landscapes with with wonderful stands of tree ferns. We really enjoyed our morning tea at PioPio at The Fat Pigeon
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| Across a little bridge to the park at the morning tea. |
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| Toasted Hot Cross Buns |
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| Stands of tree ferns line the road |
The rain does not start until Awakino. It is a bit of Erebus Conditions now with clouds right down to the foothills and of course no sightings of Mount Taranaki.
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| Awakino Tunnel |
We set up on the Fitzroy Beach Motor Camp, and then had to dry out a bit.
We decided to go to the Len Lye gallery. His early works did not impress me, but the movement ones were fantastic - shadows and sounds caused by random events; but the scariest thing was the optical illusion of glass in the loo doors!!! I was assured that from the hallway you can't be seen.
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| Like Alice through the looking glass |
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| Silver fibres reflecting in unusal ways on a bendy metal ribbon |
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| The metal thing is built in 2 dimensions in 3D space - but the shadow appears to be in 3D on 2D space!!!!!!! |
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| The black arc is a shadow, the orange ball bounces around making drumming sounds in the metal oval. |
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The front of the Len Lye centre is very shiny metal pleats - a great juxtaposition with the clock tower. It is hard to believe that this picture was taken in colour!! Such was the nature of the day.
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Very poor reception on the TV, so scrabble tonight - Duncan;'s game.
The rain is pouring down!!
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