Wet Sand

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

27 March 2019

Pre-sunrise, Orewa Beach

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The world is not flat, it's a tetrahedron!

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Various map projections try to approximate a sphere into a flat plane - Mercator etc, with varying amounts of distortion.  But ultimately, t...
21 February 2019

Outdoor Projects

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The long hot days of summer are drawing to a close, but things have been far from quiet outside.  Our small stand of 200 plantation Pinus ra...
10 October 2018

Woodworking in Bhutan

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Bhutan is a small kingdom at the eastern end of the Himalayas between India and Tibet (China).  We recently spent a week there visiting for...
09 June 2018

Kiwi Bucolic

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The view from our bedroom this morning.
30 May 2018

Morning run on the beach

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29 May 2018

City Gallery

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On display in Wellington at the moment (and along with the MONIAC also exhibits from New Zealand's entries in the Venice Biennale) are ...

The MONIAC

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I have been wanting to see this machine at the Reserve Bank Museum for several years, since reading about the New Zealand economist and inv...
31 March 2018

Next Bus Due: 1978

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A 40-year-old bus timetable discovered in our old shed.  Five buses a day serving Orewa, Silverdale, Dairy Flat, Waitoki, Kaukapakapa, Hele...
20 February 2018

Recent Projects

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Conventional paid work has unfortunately been interfering with my woodworking as of late, but I have been able to make a few things: ...
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