One tree Hill – Maungakiekie– One 11- August 2017- day the summit is located in the heart of Auckland City New Zealand, in which it sits in between Epsom, Royal Oak, Greenlane, also Onehunga… One Tree HillCan be describe as an organic viewing platform like how long time ago like in Victoria Peak in Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, but without all the modern commercial amenities in which Victoria Peak has.. In which the Summit has constantly retains is organic Edwardian look with its rich colonial past as to its previous historically nature as it was once was a Fortified Pa Maori Site village in which numerous archaeological features still can be found while the present has caught it up with it past…
One winter afternoon day is the looking in between two harbours, Manukau to towards the Waitemata harbour……
Among viewing from the summit, it’s also the final resting place one of the founding fathers of Auckland Sir Logan Campbell, in which he’s rested in the same location where once the Marae- a community meeting house hall.. Among nearby is a flatbed in which is lowered is where the Pa’s Chieftain Residence once located…
Among many features of One Tree Hill is also a living farm with sheep also cattle in which shows the public of how Auckland centrally once was..
Among the newly growth of trees that sits at the summit, it’s in good company of wiser trees that it’ll guide them through Auckland’s time..
The other side of One Tree Hill is grove road.. in which cathedral tree arches a corridor for a afternoon runner with his reflection running as well..
During wartime.. World war two One Tree Hill, Cornwall Park was once a United States military barracks in which this area field was place where it’s training also a well played rugby..
Once a Maori Fortified Pa site.. there are some interesting terraces in which these terraces was once used for farming vegetables like any other organised farming techniques that dates back to Ancient China..
One Tree Hill also Cornwall Park provides the mixture of stories of native and colonial trees Auckland telling the history of Auckland…
Among its previous past of as great strategic viewing location for defenses, now presently it’s now a civilian kind, for the people to view organically of Auckland has a whole instead of the Inorganic view of Sky Tower in Victoria Street.. Among also its civilian use is the obelisk is the most visible Auckland Landmark in which is a memorial to the Maori People also a visual observation referencing landmark for incoming aircraft to land at Jean Batten International Airport- Auckland International Airport…..
During wartime.. World war two One Tree Hill, Cornwall Park was once a United States military barracks in which this area field was place where it’s training also a well played rugby..
Viewing from the vantage point, you can see most of the viewing range of the Waitemata harbour, towards northward of Albany- As to the southward is the rural Boundaries of Auckland, swing around that view is Thames, Coromandel….. Westward is the beyond the Waitakere’s ranges towards Piha towards the Tasman Ocean…
At one time in Auckland History, a Township naming Mangere Bridge, located in the Manukau Harbour, Used to be a major suburban hub that interconnects between Mangere Bridge to the Onehunga, in which that township was busy in up to the mid 1980’s as the final construction of the new constructed Managere Bridge that became operational in 1983…. In which took ten years to build, to replace the previous one in which still stands today….as a recreational park, part of the Community, in where people now days used it to walk to work, school.. Recreationally fish from the Harbour, with as part of Auckland’s bicycle peddling network also is a resting spot for resting..
Before 1983, the old Mangere Bridge constructed in 1914, it was widely used to the point where bridge up to moment in 1980’s it was beyond saturation point more than Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak International Airport in Kowloon Bay As the its replacement was still finalized in construction after a ten year stall after stall in construction due to labor disputes.. Back then driving on the old bridge in which Coronation road that lead up into the Mangere Bridge Township was intense intensified as the new bridge waits… With one of the known traffic also it was one of the known roadways that link up travelling in from Auckland CBD towards Onehunga towards Mangere Bridge Township towards the Jean Batten international Airport- Auckland international Airport…
The Place has a strong sense of history.. one concerning of Mangere Mountain in which used to be a Maori Pa site where one was fortified……
Most of the Township still have it;s soul in which you can see it soul through the character also this place has the best pie ( Hong Kong Bakery) in Auckland….
this Coronation Road was once a vital road that connected to Onehunga towards the Auckland Central , it restfully enjoys a humble pace of life…..
Onehunga Wharf in it’s previous years of early last century this Wharf used to be alot busier in carrying alot freight.. It still does, but with Fish Mongers Fishing Trawlers making out in early hours in the morning to catch early catch.. as to this used to be a ferrying point to get around to the Auckland Central..
The Mangere Bridge Township Village Going through a revitalization thriving in its own right..
The Old Bridge was a revolutionary in it’s concrete construction in which it was stronger build in 1914…
The Old Bridge restored, modified to its humble retirement in which that retirement is recreational with local fishing in the comunity…
bike riding is the now replacement of the Old Bridge in which previously serving the heavy automobiles that once saturated it’s tarmac roads..
recreational fishing of the Old Mangere Bridge..
The old Mangere Bridge in which still stands today in which constructed during wartime 1914 in World War one and two, was design to be a wartime bridge the way how it was layout and design was to have elements of being Anti-Tank block, with some sentry towers… as a procedure the harbour also the bridge was mined for just in case.. Interesting enough the bridge itself was designed lowered as to counter any larger wartime or patrol boats from entry the mouth of the harbour…
bike riding is the now replacement of the Old Bridge in which previously serving the heavy automobiles that once saturated it’s tarmac roads..
During those times when the old Mangere Bridge was active, traffic thoroughfare through the Mangere Bridge Township was a lot more intensified than as now today… as now days the traffic is no longer through the main street of the village as it’s completely diverted through Auckland’s South-western Motorway –SH20.. As the large component of traffic is diverted the township has recently enjoyed its now provincial humbling as its thriving growing local community…..
Introducing this behind the Scenes. season Air New Zealand’s newest inflight Safety Video is Katie Holmes with Cuba Gooding Jr. taking you to a destination down under with New Zealand stunning landscape uniqueness with some warm heartiness in taking through some iconic locations around New Zealand.. Among creating the same memorable Coldplay’s Up & Up moments premise… journeying throughout the country also introducing the locations is Air New Zealand flight attendants with stunning astronomical visual effects with various New Zealand nature elements in mind …in providing the score of the inflight safety score is New Zealand music artist Gin Wigmore providing is My Little Corner of the world. As most of the production was done in the outside location with real New Zealanders whom was closely associated with the location shooting of the community among the visual effects digitally crafted together its most of the composition is done behind green screen then digitally done in post-production in between Hollywood also in-between New Zealand with Avon Studios in Lower Hutt..
The iconic New Zealand locations featured in the inflight safety video is ..
Wellington
Wanaka
Taranaki
Rotorua
Waitomo
Dunedin
Conway River, Canterbury
Southern Alps
Auckland
Gisborne
White Island, Bay of Plenty
Tekapo
Otago
Fjordland
As the building up to the to the launch window during the 22nd of May 2017, there’s been few weather related setbacks but none of technical issues came across towards the final launch that happen on the 26th May 2017, in which on a partially clouded day with the right launching environmental weathering criteria, The Launched of the Rocket Lab was initiated nicknamed “IT’S A TEST” As New Zealand has become the ninth space industry country to be commercially soon in launching payloads into orbit, from New Zealand north island west coast line in Mahia Peninsula from it firstly New Zealand’s home-grown constructed Electron Rocket launch complex facilities.. In which taken from many inspirational designs from the early days of NASA, SpaceX, also from the Soyuz rocket launcher systems…
With is their sleek All Black sporting flag colour like Air New Zealand’s21st Century livery that’s now iconic.. so is now the Rocket Lab’s Electron rocketcomes with many New Zealand made innovations, in the hulling shell of the rocket is made out from durable sleek Carbon fibre with its innovative home grown clustered Rutherford Oxygen-Kerosene 3D printed Engines in which akin to the same design linage to the Soyuz, SpaceX, Blue Origin engine clustering…. The Electron is interesting innovative it’s takes many elements of Plug and Payload in which the payload make it easier to install at the Assembly building facilities.
As Rocket Lab’s Electron Rocket starts with in currently certification process in various launch testing that been in currently previously done from its first launch, in progressive process in creating its own standard in launching various of payloads, this show the simulated potential of the of the Electron deploying its first payload from a two staging rocket system in getting low orbit payloads accessible into low earth orbit..
After a recently delude of rain in the recents week in Auckland, New Zealand… May 2017, as the weeks progressively weather wise clearing for the remainingly teasing blankets of rain clouds seductively in revealing crystal wintery night skies… in which the Planet Jupiter with its four main Galilean Moons Io, Europa, Castillo, Ganymede was in its progressive orbiting view as it skew one side from Occultation to transiting around it parent planet. Viewing that Autumn Wintery cold night, I could see Jupiter’s iconic signature Giant Red three Earth’s width spot, moved from the last time I’ve viewed it, as it was recently last in the center view, then now it’s on almost at the circumference rim of the Planet looking at least averagely eight hundred million kilometers also forty Minutes ago back in time from the Planet Earth the third planet from the nearest star, the Sun… in the Solar -Sol System …….
