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.