New Plymouth Airport (NPL)

If you are ever sketching people at an airport and you hear someone using a phone say, "Where are YOU?.. I'm at the airport... You haven't left yet?" This means that they are there way too early and are about to not only move, but go back home.

Len Lye Selfies

What to do on a New Plymouth weekend? Take a selfie in the stainless steel surface of the Len Lye Centre. (Long exposure, above, and short exposure, below. The third one was from about 18 months ago.)

Chinese Garden

Here's my sketch from the Chinese Garden, here in New Plymouth. I did the watercolour on the mid-left a while ago and the top-right one was sketched by Scott Wilson. It shows me sitting in the pavilion, getting the one last sunburn of the summer.

Chinese Pavilion

Brian sketching at the Chinese Pavilion - Brooklands by the Gables

NZ Army Truck

There's a New Zealand Army recruitment office in New Plymouth. Sometimes, it will have a cool truck parked around the back. It's a type of older 1980's Mercedes-Benz Unimog with big tires and awesome tread.

Mokau Bone Carving Weekend

South of the Gold Coast

 Tropical Fruit World

Multi Ethnic Extravaganza

Multi Ethnic Extravaganza, Irish singing, Asian dancing, Celtic guitar and pipes, English photographer

Belly Dancing

Well attended Multi Ethnic Extravaganza at the Racecourse

Band Rotunda and Poet's Bridge, Pukekura Park.

Pukekura Park today. It's a nice spot to unwind. Here's the band rotunda and Poet's Bridge looking down from up the hill.