F69 – photos galore

There’s some great snaps of the F69 scut­tling over in The Sink­ing of the Wel­ling­ton flickr photo pool, like this one from Pieter Pieterse.

Thank­fully this par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista lives just around the corner from the Bay, so did­n’t have to brave the heavy traffic and some­times incom­pre­hens­ively incon­sid­er­ate park­ing of the many people who had made their way to the South­ern Coast to wit­ness the event. To who­ever parked their car right on the corner of the blind turn that con­nects Moselle to Severn Streets, we salute you – the only way you could have made the situ­ation more dan­ger­ous was to per­haps pour some oil onto the road.

Still, the crowd was enthused and well behaved, even as the sched­uled time ticked past, and the ten­sion star­ted to mount. And then, a flare, and a second, a can­non shot from the shore, and then BOOM! and down she went.