Saturday, February 22, 2014

Bit of a Traffic Jam at the Airport….

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…as you know Nelson Airport, is according to who you get the stats from, NZs 4th or 5th busiest airport, and that was quite apparent the other afternoon with

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….2 x Dash 300s lining up for take off while waiting for that Mt Cook Airlines ATR 72 - 600 to land.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Nelsons Best Family Entertainment just voted…

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and the winner mentioned in this weeks Nelson Weekly is……

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a team whose members have been getting some coverage lately is…

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….the subject of some previous ….

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….posts Funtimes down at the beach...

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and Ships Ahoy…. (also next door to the trains)

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The Nelson Society of Modellers…..

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and their track / pond and grounds down at Tahunanui Beach…..

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Great to see Nelsons own “Sun City” railway station featuring so highly in the voting.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Its that time of the month again…

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…lets hope those whales keep away from Farewell Spit?

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Twitter activating NEW PROFILE tonight…

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and it looks great - really takes advantage (in full screen sort of way - at least on my 27” it appears that way) of a higher res photo you may have uploaded previously for your profile.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Waitangi Day week…

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throws up something last weekend….

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… that I had not seen before in Nelson?

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Meanwhile down at the beach…

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there were some advantages …

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in it being a slightly windy day

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Nelson first Cruise ship of the season…

 

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presented at The Cut

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this morning.

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For its arrival, Nelson, on this occassion,

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did not do as she does usually…

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put on glorious morning sunshine to welcome the passengers into Port, no today has started out differently than normal.

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But I’m sure as the day goes on, and just like the first Nelson settlers…

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they’ll get to experience some of our legendary Nelson ( #gigatownNSN ) sunshine.

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CREDIT - some photos courtesy of Port Nelson webcams