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Light the Fuse – Appendix 3
Coastal Path and the Greater Mahurangi Regional Park, surely, was the most comprehensive submission Auckland Council could have hoped to receive in response to its draft management plan. It details how the regional parks can perform their primary…

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J Barry Ferguson boarding namesake on his 92nd birthday Mahurangi River picnic excursion

Giselle and Gabrielle 
Storms of their grandchildren

Cimino | 23 Feb 2023
That, in modern meteorological history, Aotearoa has never been hit by a tropical cyclone, is no fluke. The clue, of course, is tropical. Not that a tropical cyclone can’t survive beyond the tropics, or even beyond the subtopics—Gabrielle was in the subtropics within…

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Mahurangi Harbour regatta morning 2023

Atmospheric river alters regatta 
Cancellation algorithm

Cimino | 8 Feb 2023
Mahurangi Regatta 2023, or rather its cancellation, has added an important loop to the loose algorithm that has been run 46 times since Mahurangi Action revived an institution—of which only scant clues had survived, as to how it was run. Initially, the sailing and…

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Barge J Barry Ferguson, on plane

Hungry-Creek-Road-first policy 
Right for the wrong reasons

Cimino | 30 Sep 2022
Prioritising private-light-vehicle access via Hungry Creek Road, ahead of a footbridge across Te Muri estuary, is countercounterproductive in response to suggestion of using a possibly more politic adjective than the ‘perverse’ used in the first draft, and my ‘pertinacious’ second stab… productivepossibly more productive adjective than the ‘perverse’ used in the first draft, and my ‘pertinacious’ second stab? policy making, utterly and hope­lessly incompatible with Auckland Council’s own declared climate emergency. Fortunately, the tens…

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Avspecs Ltd-restored Mosquito—RAF FB.IV night intruder variant, NS838—during flight testing in New Zealand prior to disassembly and shipment to the United States

Thinking outside the 
Three-bedroom-breeding box

Cimino | 11 Jun 2022
Good for absolutely nothing, war is now preoccupying the every waking moment that should be fiercely focussed on the climate emergency. For those born into the post-war optimism of the United Nations, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sharply increased the struggle…

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Caitlin Owston Doyle warping the barge Pooh into position at the Wenderholm Jetty, 2014

Seeing great regional park for the 
parks, coastal path for trails

Cimino | 25 Mar 2022
Waiwera to Mullet Point, is a coastline of mostly regional parkland—all but about 3.5 of the 13 km from Mahurangi Island to Mullet Point already is. Yet, that all-but contiguous 1000 hectares of regional parkland is officially five separate parks—six, unless a major…

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