Le Roys Bush, is a fairly well-known piece of nature in the northern part of Auckland. Known primarily for the difference in elevation from sea level to… I don't know how far it says to the highest point on Norhshore. 🙂 Historically, the trails in this forest were used by Maori to bring sea fishing products to their villages. Now these impenetrable thickets are used for walking, extreme running with high altitude gradients, well for wildlife watching.
In one of the days of fall, I went on a walking tour of Petropavlovsk, to see what live on the outskirts of the city. And the sniff didn't let me down, a full flash drive of impressions, thrash, gore and shards of the Soviet past. Walked no more or less than 20km, reached the big water, had some plushies and took the bus back home, where the subs were waiting for me at sunset…
Many amazing and unusual things can be found in Kamchatka. For example, you can catch flounder in the very center of the city, 500 meters from the government of Kamchatka Krai. You can climb a sopka and along the way learn that in 1854, Kamchatka could have been part of England… but ours defended it. You can ride your bike to the ocean and ride into an unknown military antenna of about 1,000 square meters… about «eating the flounder you caught on a fishing rod» I have no words. 🙂
A little wandering around the city, followed by crawling through the bushes on Mishenskaya Sopka. Mishenka is the highest part of the city, 380 meters. there's a TV tower and Beeline antennas on it.
Boat trips in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky are one of the popular tourist attractions. Duration of walks is different, there are for 3 days with fishing, tents and other joys, there is with an exit to the ocean, there are short one-day walks along Avacha Bay. That's just the short one we were on. From the sights we were shown the famous rocks «Three Brothers», which, according to legend, protect the bay, and standing on its shore Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, from tsunamis, which often occur in the Pacific Ocean.
To be in Kamchatka, and not climb volcanoes - it's a shame shame shame and step march to fix! Especially since some jeep access is only open for 3-4 weeks in August, the rest of the time there is either snow or rivers-lakes from the melting of this snow. One of such volcanoes is the active volcano Mutnovsky, which last erupted relatively recently, in 2000. Now in the crater you can observe and smell high-temperature fumaroles (this is when steam from under the ground with a temperature of 150-300 degrees Celsius). In a word must see!
Ведомый любопытством и нюхом на хорошие кадры, сходил на Moscow City Games, которые в этот раз проходили в Лужниках. На входе как всегда полиция и металлоискатели. Хорошо хоть воду, купленную заранее не отбирали, хотя объявления подобные висели. В поисках роллерской рампы прошелся вокруг и поснимал, что там еще творилось.
Almost missed this epochal event! The first robo-rock band with a concert in Moscow. The band Compressorhead formed in 2007 by assembling four-armed drummer Stickboy from junk. 2 years later, he was joined by guitarist Fingers, who has 78 fingers. Somewhere around this time, little Stickboy Jr came crawling in to help the big one and open the hats in the right places in the songs. The guys were chopping ugary ROCK together until 2012 when they were overtaken by bassist Fingers, who already looks more like a human being than the rest of the band. The guys appeared on the big stage as a warm-up act for the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2013.
Ever since the days of the ZX Spectrum I've had a big crush on demo-making, I even accumulated some and wrote a couple dozen tracks of music. Back then, in 1991-1994, we had no idea that there were some demo-parties and that people were competing there to see who could crack the code the best. But, a little later, when I had already moved to PC I was wildly eager to get to the demo party. We even organized local hangouts in Novosibirsk Crazy Syberian Party, but all that was not the same. We should have gotten to Assembly — the largest demoparty in the world, held annually in Finland. Well, here we are 🙂
The last day in Auckland started with torrential rain and hurricane force winds blowing cyclists out of the way. Thankfully, all the streets in the center are equipped with awnings and you can move around staying dry, but crossing the road was wet. There's a little bit of the museum in the post, and a lot of airplanes.
