Wellington pics!! (56k-well, yeah, I dunno. got asprin?)

[Toksin]

Well, armed with my new digicam I went roaming today. First to a half assed car show, with fuck all of worth there cept a few big block drag cars and a F355 Testarossa (which, I might add, burned its clutch doing a burnout). Mainly went to get my mate's bike dyno'd. Kawasaki ZXR 250 -> 41.3 earth shattering horsepower at the rear wheel!! Got it on video,as well as the run for a 110HP Augusta that was there. Two brand new Ducatis turned up as well, but we didn't see them run. Anyway, flag those pics.

First some backstory: There is a girl living with me,studying at the university in town. Her name is Lasette. She is a really good friend of tangie's. Tonight we decided to go the the Chocolate Fish cafe (where the cast and crew of Lord of the Rings would always go and eat, so we thought we'd go for a drive and take pics on the way. Behold!


Wellington from a distance...


Nice 180SX we saw on the way..well, I saw. Lasette's not into cars that much, but I still have to make Tangie jealous As a side note, I think we had that car in our workshop...put a GT28 on it


Getting closer, can see the Skyline..


Closer still


Just entering Wellington city.


A fucking cool sculpture thing set up on the waterfront. Looks absolutely amazing in the sun when the wind is blowing.


Down the coastal road a bit, I took this pic of a Carrera softtop, yeah I know, crappy pic.


One of the many, many houses around here with cable cars leading up to them (it's behind the tree)


Me driving, snapped mid conversation. Yes, I know I need to shave.


Water


Random bay


Another random bay


Coastal road leading down to another bay (I forget the name, but I just call it the end of the Earth, it's this little village hidden away)


Lyall Bay, at the arse end of the airport. That's where Elijah Wood etc would go surfing.


Beach shot at Owhiro Bay (I think, could be Moa point..too tired to remember)


Sunset shot there


Another beach shot


Lasette!! I suxx0r at teh focus :\


Yeah fuck I dunno...


Boats!!!


One of my favourite shots


These seagulls all just parked on this wall as soon as I got near...


My other favourite shot


I don't know what it is, but it looked cool. Too bad it was out of focus Looking to the left of the previous shot...


In the Terrace tunnel heading home (yeah I know my windscreen is dirty, don't be rude)


White FD passing us on the way home


Wellington sunset clouds



We never found Chocolate Fish cafe. We drove right past it without seeing it, so we came all the way back to a cafe in the Hutt and had dinner there. Most pork ribs I've ever had, I couldn't see straight afterwards, so good...mmm...pork....


So ya. This is where I live. Wellington > * Next time I'm going to do a dedicated photography trip and do it properly.
Pics taken with Sony DSC-V1 at 5Mpixel resized to suit AF. PM me for highres versions

[kittedb18bt]

holy picture! now we are going to be asking you for some more pictures. the picture subtitled "my favorite shot" is a good picture. i still like the subtitle "water", that made me laugh. what kind of sunglasses do you have?

[IntegraBoy2003]

Those pics are all really sweet!!, I love the pics of the sunset

[deadlight]

Wow, where exactly do you live? That's some beautiful scenery.

[Suislide]

nicely done Tok.

i'll do one of these for my area (north of Toronto. fairly nice scenery) but i'll wait until the spring/summer because right now, it's over-cast every day and everything is STILL covered with snow (despite the fact that spring technically starts on March 21st).

i have some nice pictures like this from my trip to California that i still haven't posted up...hmmm...


*goes and downsizes*

btw, Dave. F355 isn't a Testarossa. it's just an F355. 512 was the Testarossa.

[Toksin]

I live in Wellington, New Zealand. Well, just outside of it in a town called Lower Hutt



The red line is the route we travelled through Wellington, Lower Hutt ain't on this map though.


My sunglasses are some random cheap ones I got like 8 years ago in South Africa...

Brian: My bad, I made this past past midnight and I was so tired I couldn't see straight
Here's the Ferrari anyway:


Before burnout


After burnout - bye bye clutch

[speediva]

Lasette!!! Best pic in there.

[slave]

Hey bro, love the pics, that is cool.


Busy next xmas? I might take you up on last xmas' offer.

Do I get a free Lasette with every holiday??

BTW, GT28 on a 180SX = 12 second drifter.

(with a lot of other mods too, but thats what Brad was running)

[zebrathree]

You need more pics of the central city bro.

I vote we go to Liks and take some piccies of the scenery there, though I'm not sure if we'd be allowed to post them....

[jon@af]

Dude, Dave, I'm so coming to visit you. Seriously.

[Oz]

When I work out how to get pics from my phone to my puter, will post some up

[pickle]

YAAAAAAAAY WELLINGTON! Home of the coolest person in the world!@%@% (ME not Toksin)

[Ssom]

phhhhbbbttt...........I'm from Auckland, I already know what a Carrera looks like, nice Punto in front errrr.......:o



Yeah, evidently you had already shaved by this afternoon

[Neutrino]

Well i see the pics but I don't get it, did you guys manage to destroy the ring of power or not?

[D[X]P]

Nice pics!!!