Some alien little S.O.B. managed to beat the security on our site and install a nasty little bit of malicious code in the software for the Theme I built it on. As it was above my paygrade (and I was out of town and trying to cope with it on my phone screen) I had to SOS our providers to delouse it for me.
Which they did, but I have had to revert to an older theme to get things up and running again. I will eventually (after I get home from Wellywood) try and pretty it up again – but I sure as Hellers won’t be using the theme that had the buggar factor in it!
I took some photos on the way back home from lunch at Ruawai on May Day, wending from Arapohue to Tangiteroria. There was still quite a bit of flooding after three week’s of “Drought-breaking” rain. Instead of loading them into a Gallery as per usual, I hunted out a Linux app that will produce slideshows and render them as a video. And I included the donor photos as well as the usual stitched panoramas.
Oh! Fragious joy! NOT!
First teach the elderly brain how to drive the app. Then teach it how to add subtitles in YouTube. Then add sound from a Creative Commons source. Anyhoo, anyhoo: several tries (MUCH) later… (Oops. Click on the CC at the bottom of the YouTube player to show the subtitles…)
From home to Waipapa, then on North on SH10. Round the Tourist Route from SH10 to Whangaroa, with visits to Matauri Bay, Te Ngae Bay, Wainui and Mahinepua. Drove as far as the road goes around Whangaroa Harbour (I had to apologise for leaving the amphibian at home when Grant wanted to go further). Then back to SH10 to Kaeo to Donna’s Mad Hatter’s Café for lunch.
Grant had to sit in the BIG CHAIR for the traditional photo.
After lunch, reverse direction of travel as far as Kapiro Road, then followed the signs Rangihoua Heritage Park, the site of the first Mission Settlement in New Zealand.
As it took about an hour to walk the track and read all the information DOC has placed about the site neither of the Crowther brothers were much popular with the Librarian, sat in the car; but then neither of us had actually asked her to be a klingon and banish Grant to the back seat for the week. So there was not much sympathy given by anyone to anybody.
Bay of Islands from Mission Station siteDown here, round the corner, bit further. Then back up – that was the bit that Grant wasn’t so enthused by.
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