On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM, David Mann <d...@multisport.net.nz> 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. > > 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.
Lovely shots, no matter the equipment. Sounds like a great ride. Headwind out, tailwind home; that's the way to do it! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.