Wet Sand

A blog about everything that interests me. Woodworking, Engineering, Travel, Society, Architecture, Nature, Design and more.

13 March 2017

Great Barrier. No, the other one.

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Great Barrier Reef in Australia is a 2300km long coral reef, mostly underwater.  Great Barrier Island is a mountainous 43km long island, a ...
19 February 2017

Old Oval Oak Overhaul

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As blogged about previously, I bought an oak extending dining table online last year for $20.  It had suffered a catastrophic brea...
01 December 2016

Hawaii

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A ladder engine from the Honolulu fire service - driver at the front, another person steering at the back and a surf board for... surfin...
20 November 2016

Sydney-cont

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Long after they disappeared from London's tube network, the wooden escalator still makes an appearance at Museum Station in Sydney. ...
17 November 2016

Sydney

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Some observation from a brief visit. A new seven storey timber framed building going up in Barangaroo. Well used protected cycle ...
07 September 2016

Almost worthless

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Travelling through Egypt in the 90's I was given some of these notes by a bank.  Despite appearances the denomination is not zero.  The...
25 August 2016

Airships - the Airlander 10 and others

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Yesterday the world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 crashed during its second test flight in Cardington, Bedfordshire, causing dam...
17 August 2016

Middle East Part 3

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In 1999, I crossed the border from Turkey into Syria and spent my first night in Aleppo at a hotel with dirty, blood stained sheets, do...
16 August 2016

Where does the heat go?

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We have a relatively new (2011) timber framed house.  It was built to comply fully with the current New Zealand Building Code and has glass...
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