#YesterdayInAuckland | #Auckland- one Mid Late August Wintery Mission Bay – Rangitoto Island- A Gallery-

 

During on one weekend mid Late August 2017, One  wintery Weekend Auckland  heading to  get warmer as it headed towards the Spring season as the daylight seemingly getting warmer and longer.. Also wishing that there was no daylight savings for the summery season… As the weekend warmingly with the ample amount of daylight spreading….

wide View of Mission bay..

There’s one place in Auckland urban, in which is Mission bay, a urban beach line in which you could attend to after work, the weekend in which to escape from work, of the daily chores of home.. Mission bay sits midway along the Tamaki Drive Auckland, with a wide range of local amenities, as to a cosy neighbourhood of cafes, restaurants…  The Beach lies in the Auckland Waitemata Harbour, in which Mission bay has some key historical landmarks, Bastion Point, Trevor Moss Davis Memorial Fountain, with a neighbourhood Gallery…

Among that it has some interesting rock formations into when Auckland’s Volcanic past with as you walk north wise of the beach you can see un sandy buried the frozen lava formations layering like a molten Scoria rock toffee formation… also in the distance is the Rangitoto Island once of Auckland’s Volcanic past in which it lies dormant for a while in the Hauraki Gulf. Rangitoto Island name means Bloody Sky, as it was formed over the period of six thousand years that gate crashed Motutapu Island….

wide view taken from a St Heliers – Achiles Point viewing platform on an August Weekend

It recent residences were from the IWI Ngāti Paoa until recently in the European  Colonization it housed local New Zealand residences with their make shift housing as seen along the wharf locations of the island.. Among wartime it housed World War Two to house United States troops to store mines, also barracks as a look out as to a Communications out post for war time New Zealand…..

 

#YesterdayInAuckland |#Auckland Afternoon wintery – 11- August 2017- One tree Hill – Maungakiekie- A Gallery

 

 

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 Hill Can 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 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…

#YesterdayInAuckland |#Auckland-30th July 2017- Wintery weekend cold amberic warm Sunset – One Tree Hill- A Gallery-

 

As during the weekend 30th July 2017 of Auckland, that week was the coldest week, but with the clearest of all frozen nights of great of looking at the Starry night.  In one iconic organic viewing location is One Tree Hill, in which location have breath taking views than to the Auckland CBD’s Sky Tower…One Tree hill, One Tree Hill Domain Located in the Heart of in between Onehunga, Royal Oak Greenlane also Epsom..

Looking in this direction towards the Tasman ocean towards Hong Kong.. as the coldest nights about to come.. with crispy starry nights.. with the remaining sunset warmth of the day..

One Tree Hill wintery wise with all encompassing views of the Auckland, in which as the best urban viewing sunrise sunset spots for Auckland- as still one of the most popular local also Tourist spots in Auckland also it’s free aswell to travel upwards to the summit among with the best spots of photographing Auckland in way it’s like Auckland’s Hong Kong Victoria Peak without the trams besides the northern Mountain Eden in which is closer towards the Auckland’s Central…  Also it’s one of the most identity Auckland Landmarks historically with the obelisk marking its spot also visually navigating for aircraft, as to it’s the resting spot for Auckland’s founding fathers Sir Logan Campbell…

Looking in this direction towards the Tasman ocean towards Hong Kong.. as the coldest nights about to come.. with crispy starry nights.. with the remaining sunset warmth of the day..

 Watching the sunset settle down for the day, as it finally attempts to warm up the remaining warmth for the Auckland landscape in looking downwards to the Auckland west coast shorelines beyond the Waitakere’s in which looking a further south you can see the mouth of the Manukau Harbour, once a treacherous harbour to navigate for in the colonial days sailing ships, in which now days with navigation technologies the harbour isn’t so Treacherous..  As the sun settles down beyond the Waitakere ranges onwards looking towards the Tasman Ocean towards Australia then onwardly to the direction to Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong…..

#YesterdayInAuckland |#Auckland- Managere Bridge township and the old Bridge- A Gallery-

 

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 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…..

#iPhonePhotography | 冬月 #winters #Moon – 29th July 2017- it was the coldest starry Auckland Night on – A Gallery

 

Last night on the 29thJuly 2017, it was the coldest Saturday night in Auckland, New Zealand  in which the following morning in which last night temperature dropped from eight to three degrees C wearing multiple layers of clothing  in which  it warmly works, as it reaching midnight in which the following morning furthering it dropped more into the least than five towards one Degrees C least… in which last night it was the most frozen light, it was sharper than the previous weeks before in which the path of light was least distorted, diffracted as showing crowds of the frozen starry night skies …

 

This time at the moon rises lately in the night as it moves towards the Full Moon as Waxing Gibbous more of the Earth Shadow most away from the Moon, as it’s currently in between fifty percent onwards you can see more of the Luna features with Luna Landscape in which if you see the moon like an A- line wedding dress with a lacy Crater textured embroidery with a grey silk lining, with a chiffon satin….. If you see the moon that way you’ll see the texturing patchwork of the indention of how the depth of the craters is…. On that night you can see the among the terminator lines like a terminator Veil Unveiling robe in which you could see the outline of Craters in which you could see how deep the craters is……. Among with the more the Waxing Gibbous, with the Tranquility also Serenity starts to reveal their stories about the NASA’s Apollo Lunar Mission... Also about the Jade Rabbit..