This happened just up the road from us (about 16 Km along the beach). Locals stunned as enormous whale washes up on beach in Levin
The whale was already dead when it washed ashore, but the cause of death is not yet known.
So huge and so sad. 🐳
Update: the news source gave Waitārere Beach as the location, but local sources have identified it as in fact Hokio Beach (even closer to us).
Last night we watched Palm Beach, an Australian film from 2019 🎬:
A reunion party is being held at Palm Beach in Sydney by a group of lifelong friends.
Beautiful scenery. Good music. Nice to see Kiwi actor Sam Neill. Not great; not terrible.
The river has created almost an oxbow in its lazy loop between throat and sea. It’s whitebaiting season so a few folks are out with their fishing nets.
Hmm, 5.7 but 64 Km deep and not too close: Strong earthquake occurred 10 km west of St Arnaud. Bit of a shake as I was going to sleep. 〰️
Success: 8+ hours of uninterrupted sleep. I’ve been working on my sleep for a couple of years now and am starting to see and feel improvements. It makes so much difference to not be tired and foggy all day. I have a decade or more of terrible sleep to catch up on.
Ahhh, this is the time of year when the sun rises before 7 am. It feels like the year is really actually heading towards summer. I’m looking forward to some good warm days and not-cold nights. I’m ready for a holiday in a hot place (not happening, of course).
I really enjoyed most of the stories in Voices Carry and Other Stories of Women and Crime by Dayle A. Dermatis. 📚
I didn’t finish the first story, but found the second, Bothering with the Details, specially appealing. I bought this as part of The Mysterious Women bundle.
Amazing. According to Ancient Earth globe, 260 million years ago Wellington, New Zealand (close enough to where I live now) was located at the South Pole.
So, in another 260 million years will it have drifted north all the way to the North Pole?
Day Two of spring and the peach tree is already in sync. Blossoms appearing.
Timezones! (I assume.) I diligently posted at least once each day for #mbaug photo challenge, and used that tag so I could easily collect the posts. MarsEdit shows 1 post (or more) per day. A Micro.Blog Search though shows something else — ‘incorrect’ dates. Timezones?
// @help
Another excellent read: Tracking Game: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima. 📚
Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex.
The fingers of the sea.
For Micro Monday let me recommend @GeneticJen who is writing a magificent must-read series on Women in tech history. So far:
- Margaret Hamilton
- Grace Hopper
- the ENIAC programmers
- Katherine Johnson
- the women of Bletchley Park
- Hedy Lamarr
As always with love it is inexplicable. I just love Spain. The 4 weeks we spent travelling there in 2015 were too brief. I also love waterfalls. The Fervenza do Ézaro waterfall is between Santiago de Compostela and Fisterre in Spain.
On 04 November 2012 we made a wonderful discovery: an empty section at Waikawa Beach. By mid-January 2013 it belonged to us and we’ve been living here 5 or 6 years now. That pile of bricks is where our house now stands.
I very much enjoyed Pretty Little Horses (an Abby Maxon mystery novel) by Annie Reed. 📚 Gripping ending kept me up late reading.
The copy editor needs a better eye though for quite a few trivial annoyances, such as missing words (esp. ‘the’) or ‘the' instead of ‘to’ etc.
Enjoyed Gators and Garters (A Miss Fortune Mystery Book 18) by Jana Deleon. 📚 This story felt more like hanging out with old friends. Didn’t have quite the zing of previous books.
Ida Belle’s wedding to Walter—but the caterer goes missing
Maybe the series has run its course?
Living here is great for my emotions. Today’s special boost: the black swan pair with the five thriving cygnets.
