Is it jellyfish season?

I just spot­ted 2 pinky frilled jelly­fish in wors­er bay.   I did­n’t hang round to take pho­tos but more may wash in with then high tide and there may be more around the south coast it’s often this time of year we get a swarm for a few days. They looked a little like this […]

We ask: why are you here?

The Wel­ling­tonista would like to know why so many god­damn black-legged jelly­fish decided to hang out at Lyall Bay over the week­end. Sure, it was hot, and swim­ming was a great idea, but for me, not for you creepy wobbly things! And it did­n’t make a dif­fer­ence how calm it was on Sat­urday and how wavey it was on Sunday – you were still there! Bas­tards. It ‘s not like you were put on Earth first or any­thing, and yet you act like you own the place…

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 […]

F69 sinking postponed all go!

It’s all on. The wind speeds giv­en in the mar­ine fore­cast are still vaguely bor­der-line, but it’s nice and sunny, and the swell isn’t too big, so, why not? Indeed – too windy, so post­poned until tomor­row: 3pm, Sunday 13th Novem­ber. Check the offi­cial site for details.

F69 scheduled to go down this weekend

Yes indeed, unless the wind gets up too much, this Sat­urday (12 Nov) at 3pm, the ex-Frig­ate F69-Wel­ling­ton is going to be scuttled off the south coast, between Island and Houghton Bays (just to the East of Tapu Ter­anga – the island of Island Bay). There’s prob­ably going to be a heap of people going […]