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Posted at 12:00am Thursday 17th Jun, 2010 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
.jpg) Moko the dolphin followed the fishing boat Eskdale into Tauranga just before Queen’s Birthday Weekend.
Waterline editor Brian Rogers was the first Tauranga residents to make contact with Moko when the full sized bottle nose dolphin gave Brian the honour of stealing his paddle.
Brian was kayaking near the ice jetty and put the paddle down to...
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Posted at 12:00am Thursday 17th Jun, 2010 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
.jpg) Tauranga city council staff have scotched the plans of a couple of Tauranga fishermen who thought they were going to get a free boat.
The fishing boat Green Pastures has lain derelict at the slip jetties for some years.
The fishermen who say they pumped it out from time believed they had an understanding that they could tow Green Pastures...
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Posted at 12:00am Thursday 17th Jun, 2010
.jpg) David Blackley is looking for a boat builder to assist with a project he hopes will also build new lives for those taking part in the construction.
He wants to build an 8m trailer sailor he says is good enough to sail offshore, and that can double as a caravan or back yard accommodation.
He wants to build it with paulownia, a light weight, fast...
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Posted at 12:00am Thursday 17th Jun, 2010
.jpg) Tauranga based harbourmasters Jennifer Roberts and Carl Magazinovic are thought to be the only harbourmasters in the country internationally qualified.
Tauranga Harbourmaster Jennifer Roberts has already received her diploma, with Carl expecting to sit his final exam later in the year.
Jennifer’s diploma, awarded after a year’s work...
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Posted at 12:00am Thursday 17th Jun, 2010
.jpg) A sailor’s crow’s nest is a viewing platform according to Tauranga City Council, and its ordered Simon Zeigler’s crow’s nest removed from the roof of his Ngatai Road home.
The crow’s nest, the nautical term for the masthead lookout, has no land bound equivalent – which is Simon’s undoing.
Even though he...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 11th Jun, 2010
.jpg) Disabled athletes such as Matthew Lack, who studies in Tauranga and holds International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation under-20 world records for 800m, 1500m and 5000m along with a host of other titles, will benefit from a revitalisation of ParaFed Bay of Plenty.
Matthew Lack. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
Matthew is hoping to qualify for the...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 11th Jun, 2010 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
.jpg) Tauranga City Councillors may be quietly hoping a small earthquake will knock over the rail bridge – so they don’t have to pay $10 million for a stand alone walkway/southern pipeline support structure.
The council is hoping to piggy-back the sewer across the harbour on a rebuilt walkway, which will double as a repiling project for the frail...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 11th Jun, 2010
.jpg) Tauranga City Council is offering residents free coffee and cake in return for people having their say on what they would like for the future of Masonic Park.
Tauranga City Council urban designers Lucy Ullrich and Clinton Bowyer are offering residents free coffee and cake in return for sharing their thoughts about the future of Masonic Park. Photo...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 11th Jun, 2010 | By Tash Cain
.jpg) Tauranga’s Tim Mills and Mark Pratt are planning to cycle 1200km through unknown territory in Cambodia to raise money to build houses for orphaned children.
The pair is participating in the Great Cambodian Bike Ride, September 1-8, with 10 Australians.
Mark Pratt and Tim Mills are looking forward to their big 1200km adventure through Cambodia...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 11th Jun, 2010
.jpg) With clear night skies this week Tauranga astronomers are expected to be putting their new telescope through its paces.
The new Meade 14” reflecting telescope was installed on its new custom-built viewing platform in what used to be the Ferguson Park Soccer Club rooms.
Astronomical society members and the new telescope.
The roof over the...
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