Waitangi Weekend!!
This has probably, no, it has been the best Waitangi weekend I have ever had!!!!
On Saturday Me, Amit and Echo went up north for a road trip to look for locations for Nowhere to Love. We stopped at Pakiri beach which is north of Leigh and it was such a beautiful beach!! After about an hour of body surfing and playin in the waves we had to make our way. Was such a nice cool off after driving for a while. We then drove to Kerikeri and had the biggest icecreams I have ever had!! None of the towns we had come across so far had anything that we could use in the film. That was until we came across Helensville. The graveyard there was really nice and there was definitely a few nice angles to film from. So overall it was a fun, semi successful day.
Sunday, Amit, Echo and I met up with Troy, Angela, Emily and a couple of others at Hunua Falls near Papakura. So we had a picnic which I haven't done for ages. It was really cool just sitting there listening to the water falling over the edge and hitting the pool below. I was really wanting to go for a swim but I was too burnt from the day before. Echo took some great shots of people jumping into the water. I think Amit has put them up on his blog. After the relaxing time at Hunua falls the 3 of us drove home past Whitford to look for some more locations for the film.
On Sunday night I went to Marks for a BBQ. We then cruised round to my house for a few beverages and some shooting of my old air rifle. That was pretty cool and then came the possum. You can imagine what happened next :). No possums were hurt tho which is kinda good and bad at the same time haha.
Monday, monday, monday. What a monday!!!!!! In the morning I spent a good couple of hours cleaning the house from the night before. Which I actually didn't mind doing at all and actually found it quite therapeutic. I then did a very much needed sort out in my room because I was catching up with Vicki later on in the day and my room was a mess!! So now I can actually walk into my room without standing on something and breaking it!! Gareth came over during the day and we played a bit of ping pong. He then left and Vicki came over. Was really good seeing her again after such a long time. As soon as she left I went out to the deck and couldn't believe how beautiful the clouds were!!!! Probably the nicest I have seen from our house. So I grabbed the camera and decided to do a timelapse of the ocean and clouds. VERY NICE!!! Then, to make things better, a MASSIVE Fork lightning storm went past in the near distance. So then quickly repo'd my video camera, plus my stills camera, plus myself, a maglight, 3 lenses and 2 tripods onto the roof of my house and clicked and rolled away. WOW!!! What a storm it was!!! Got some wicked photos of lightning!!! Plus got about 1000 mosquito bites but soo worth it!! I have been wanting to get photo's of lightning like I did for about 5 years and today was the day!! So tomorrow morning I will send a couple of the pics to the local newspaper to see if they want to publish them. Fingers crossed :)
So overall was a great weekend and I am feeling really happy for the 1st time since I have been back from India. I am stuffed now and can feel the adrenaline from the storm wearing off so will cruise to my lovely bed, probably lie there for a while and then dose off into a nice relaxing sleep hahaha. Man I love my bed!!! I wonder if its legal to marry a bed, hhmm. Although the baby's would look a little odd hahaha. Look what I type when im tired!!!
Lance
On Saturday Me, Amit and Echo went up north for a road trip to look for locations for Nowhere to Love. We stopped at Pakiri beach which is north of Leigh and it was such a beautiful beach!! After about an hour of body surfing and playin in the waves we had to make our way. Was such a nice cool off after driving for a while. We then drove to Kerikeri and had the biggest icecreams I have ever had!! None of the towns we had come across so far had anything that we could use in the film. That was until we came across Helensville. The graveyard there was really nice and there was definitely a few nice angles to film from. So overall it was a fun, semi successful day.
Sunday, Amit, Echo and I met up with Troy, Angela, Emily and a couple of others at Hunua Falls near Papakura. So we had a picnic which I haven't done for ages. It was really cool just sitting there listening to the water falling over the edge and hitting the pool below. I was really wanting to go for a swim but I was too burnt from the day before. Echo took some great shots of people jumping into the water. I think Amit has put them up on his blog. After the relaxing time at Hunua falls the 3 of us drove home past Whitford to look for some more locations for the film.
On Sunday night I went to Marks for a BBQ. We then cruised round to my house for a few beverages and some shooting of my old air rifle. That was pretty cool and then came the possum. You can imagine what happened next :). No possums were hurt tho which is kinda good and bad at the same time haha.
Monday, monday, monday. What a monday!!!!!! In the morning I spent a good couple of hours cleaning the house from the night before. Which I actually didn't mind doing at all and actually found it quite therapeutic. I then did a very much needed sort out in my room because I was catching up with Vicki later on in the day and my room was a mess!! So now I can actually walk into my room without standing on something and breaking it!! Gareth came over during the day and we played a bit of ping pong. He then left and Vicki came over. Was really good seeing her again after such a long time. As soon as she left I went out to the deck and couldn't believe how beautiful the clouds were!!!! Probably the nicest I have seen from our house. So I grabbed the camera and decided to do a timelapse of the ocean and clouds. VERY NICE!!! Then, to make things better, a MASSIVE Fork lightning storm went past in the near distance. So then quickly repo'd my video camera, plus my stills camera, plus myself, a maglight, 3 lenses and 2 tripods onto the roof of my house and clicked and rolled away. WOW!!! What a storm it was!!! Got some wicked photos of lightning!!! Plus got about 1000 mosquito bites but soo worth it!! I have been wanting to get photo's of lightning like I did for about 5 years and today was the day!! So tomorrow morning I will send a couple of the pics to the local newspaper to see if they want to publish them. Fingers crossed :)
So overall was a great weekend and I am feeling really happy for the 1st time since I have been back from India. I am stuffed now and can feel the adrenaline from the storm wearing off so will cruise to my lovely bed, probably lie there for a while and then dose off into a nice relaxing sleep hahaha. Man I love my bed!!! I wonder if its legal to marry a bed, hhmm. Although the baby's would look a little odd hahaha. Look what I type when im tired!!!
Lance
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