Offroad-Express

Righto then, you've all probably said or heard that saying on a few occasions.

A mate rings ya, or you're out wheeling and you hear the words that I heard today.............

"You can't beat Wellington on a good day"

It doesn't matter what town you live in, you've probably heard it or said it at some stage.

So heres your chance to showcase the wonderful scenery your town can produce on a good day.

I'll start it off with shots taken on the 4wd trip today.



looking out across Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt and Wellington Harbour with the snow capped Kaikouras in the background



looking across the Paremata Inlet / Porirua Harbour and the South Island in the background



A very different day to yesterday, not a breath of wind on the tops and awesome views. I'm sure we could of stood there for hours just taking it all in

bro thats fcukin Orsum shooting!

nice spot

next akas trip you northen folk need to come down for very well worth it

Yep, you got that one right skid.
Been a nice day in port, went for short walk to G.Guy motors, always a few nice trucks to drewl (spell check) over in the garage.
Back to reality, it will all end at 0400hrs tommorrow when we start bashing our way north.

Skid ,you could just about stand for mayor of wellington with comments like that.

You would be better than Tim Shadbolt.

Cheers Richard

Bulletproof wrote:Skid ,you could just about stand for mayor of wellington with comments like that.

You would be better than Tim Shadbolt.

Cheers Richard

Shit dont go giving him any funny ideas?

Bulletproof wrote:Skid ,you could just about stand for mayor of wellington with comments like that.

You would be better than Tim Shadbolt.

Cheers Richard

I think Shadbolt is safe down there.. and we don't need another tree hugging hippy as mayor up here

Some photo's I took of the same area...

holy shit that windfarm just completely ruins some of those pics

wopass wrote:holy shit that windfarm just completely ruins some of those pics

looks betterer than a nuke plant though

i think wind farms look awesome
but sometimes things go bad

Looking over whitemans valley, hutt valley and beyond

haynzy wrote:

wopass wrote:holy shit that windfarm just completely ruins some of those pics

looks betterer than a nuke plant though

one day people will wake up and go nuke, gives power when there no wind and lots of wind, and the waste output while not very "user freindly" is a heap less that the fuking ETS will cost us!!!

In the mean time,those wind turbines look great, I say put heaps more up around Wellington!! perfect spot for them!
Just keep them the hell away from down here.

juz wrote:In the mean time,those wind turbines look great, I say put heaps more up around Wellington!! perfect spot for them!
Just keep them the hell away from down here.

This link is to the turbine farm that's going up in Dunedin bud, it has been in the planning stages for over four years now and it was ment to start before the Welly Makara one but was delayed.

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/10618 ... -wind-farm

Yeh yeh I know.... They canned the last proposed wind farm, just as long as its in some valley nobody sees. Roxburgh is fine!

juz wrote:Yeh yeh I know.... They canned the last proposed wind farm, just as long as its in some valley nobody sees. Roxburgh is fine!

Don't think the Dunedin farm has been canned, was put on hold because of the greenies but plans are in action, hate to say it but more test sites going up very soon.

Oh yeh I meant they canned ONE proposed windfarm, definatly more planned.Didnt realise there were some up above Roxburgh until the ORE central trip in summer... I prefer a good ol' fashioned dam!
Be some more of them down here soon too..