This is lovely! I’m heading up that way next week (training for a long walk and tramping all around Wellington in the preparation); I’ll remember to take my time. :)
Really struck a chord there Melanie. For an office party many Christmases ago, I took half a dozen co-workers up to the lookout on the cable car where I bought them ice cream cones before leading them back down to the city passing through the Gardens to Bolton Street Cemetery and finally back to the office over the motorway bridge. There were small prizes for the person who could identify the Agathis Australis and first to find the seriously overgrown grave of the first Mayor of Wellington.
Great research Melanie... I would enjoy hearing your talk to the Botanical Society
Another interesting fact. All the land in the Kāpiti District was surveyed in the early 1900's and given a Block name - Ngarara. They did not use macrons. It is still on all the certificates of land ownership or titles. I wondered why and came to speculate that it came from the obvious geographical feature, visible from anywhere in the District - Kāpiti Island.
Looking at google now I find corroboration. "Ngārara is the Māori name for reptiles – including tuatara, lizards, and the giant reptiles of Māori tradition."
To strike a negative note amidst all the love of outdoors and New Zealand bush, I agree about that stupid symbol that turns up unbidden. Copilot does give quick and usually accurate answers to simple research requests but its uninvited, silly interventions in Word are raising a murderous anger in me. No matter what Copilot may "think", its knowledge of the English language, its spelling, its grammar and its vocabulary fall very short. Go away, Copilot, I can live happily without you
This is lovely! I’m heading up that way next week (training for a long walk and tramping all around Wellington in the preparation); I’ll remember to take my time. :)
Enjoy the walk. And listen out for the kākā! It's a special place.
Really struck a chord there Melanie. For an office party many Christmases ago, I took half a dozen co-workers up to the lookout on the cable car where I bought them ice cream cones before leading them back down to the city passing through the Gardens to Bolton Street Cemetery and finally back to the office over the motorway bridge. There were small prizes for the person who could identify the Agathis Australis and first to find the seriously overgrown grave of the first Mayor of Wellington.
Great research Melanie... I would enjoy hearing your talk to the Botanical Society
Thanks Winston! That's a great walk through the gardens and cemetery. When I worked in the central city, it was my favourite place for lunch.
Another interesting fact. All the land in the Kāpiti District was surveyed in the early 1900's and given a Block name - Ngarara. They did not use macrons. It is still on all the certificates of land ownership or titles. I wondered why and came to speculate that it came from the obvious geographical feature, visible from anywhere in the District - Kāpiti Island.
Looking at google now I find corroboration. "Ngārara is the Māori name for reptiles – including tuatara, lizards, and the giant reptiles of Māori tradition."
To strike a negative note amidst all the love of outdoors and New Zealand bush, I agree about that stupid symbol that turns up unbidden. Copilot does give quick and usually accurate answers to simple research requests but its uninvited, silly interventions in Word are raising a murderous anger in me. No matter what Copilot may "think", its knowledge of the English language, its spelling, its grammar and its vocabulary fall very short. Go away, Copilot, I can live happily without you
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for virtual tour.
Thanks for this. I have lived in sight of Tarikākā for most of my life. It was interesting to read more about it.