Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 24/7/2026

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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

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So how’s it going?

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10 Comments

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 24d (7 replies)

Back from 3 weeks of AL and 2,500km road trip around Hawkes Bay and the East Cape

Meh

Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 24d (2 replies)

I hope that "meh" is not describing the holiday?!

I haven't been up around the East Cape before. Any highlights?

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 24d (1 reply)

No, it was the being back home

There were some wonderful beaches, a bit of a shame most of the freedom camping spots were closed for the off season, which meant much fewer choices of where to park up

Dave@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 23d

Oh interesting they close the spots, that is a shame. It sounds like you enjoyed it though!

AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 23d (3 replies)

Wow, that seems like a dicey period to have been on a road trip - we had some shithouse weather, didn't we?

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 2 pts · 23d (2 replies)

The first few days were crap. We had planned to head into Mangatutu hotsprings but called it off with the weather warning.

We were just south of Wairoa, heading to Tiniroto, when it came through. There was 280mm of rain at Hackfalls Station over the couple of days.

AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 22d (1 reply)

That rain sounds epic - so bad it's amazing sorta thing

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 2 pts · 22d

Last year we were in the Brightwater floods in Nelson, I think maybe we need to put out a public notice before we go on vacation

https://no.lastname.nz/post/1468112

sequinncer@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Hello all,

I'm new to Lemmy and I'm just making my first post to get the hang of the controllers Here's a pic from Nasa's Hubble of the ngc-1559 galaxy [(https://www.nasa.gov/stem-content/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday/)]

Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 20d

Welcome!