On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:50 +1200, "David Mann" <[email protected]> wrote: > Aramoana is a small beach town about 20km north of Dunedin, at the end of > a scenic coastal road. The town is infamous for being the location of > New Zealand's worst massacre where 13 people were shot dead in November > 1990. As such I've always been a bit apprehensive about visiting. > > The town is part of a popular training route for cyclists so I decided it > was time to pay it a visit. I don't carry a proper camera when riding so > here are a couple of cellphone snaps. It was hard to imagine such a > sleepy community being the scene of such a tragic event. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/aramoana/ > > If you want to know more about the town, Wikipedia should do the trick.
Very picturesque and very impressive for a cellphone. I was in Dunedin in 1976 - my brother-in-law was doing an internship at the Dunedin Hospital so we took the opportunity to be escorted around the country in his car. Unfortunately I can't remember much of the Dunedin area and I suspect it's changed a lot since we were there anyway. I do remember the train trip from Christchurch to Dunedin - slow but spectacular. I can't recall hearing about the Aramoana massacre but I'm sure it made news here at the time. Only a few years later (1996) we had a similar incident at Port Arthur in Tasmania. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > For the record I had a crazy head wind on the way out. I returned via > the hill road from Port Chalmers - it was further than I'd expected to go > (about 67km in total) but well worth the effort. > > Cheers, > Dave > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
