Bad weather in WN, metservice website said sunny in Masterton so decided to go to Castlepoint for a swim.
Never got there, in Mastertom there was a sign pointing to the airshow, heck it only happens once every two years and everbody should follow signs right.
I thought I would go there for a hour and carry on to castlepoint for a swim. About three hours later I was still there and sunburnt, so flagged castlepoint.
There were not just old planes there, there was a lot of old army equipment (jeeps, tanks, etc. and yes a plane); and event tractors.
And they had a chitty-chitty-bang-bang clone, that even had up to date road registration.
While I was there they had a simulation of a couple of choppers doing a combat pickup, one fired flares as part of the simulation of securing a combat zone. As Wiarapa is a fire hazard area at the moment that provided a change to snap a fire service helicopter dumping water on the runway as soon as they had finished.
I got a lot of blue sky shots trying to track the plane flashing past, but persistence got a few good ones.
Anyway, I got a lot of good pictures of planes in flight and on the ground (ok some of the ground shots were of planes I missed/blue-skyed in the air). But I have stuffed a few hundred in the photo section of my website.
I suppose I will have to go to castlepoint tomorrow now; or probably just one of the WN beaches; or possibly none depending on how bad this sunburn is in the morning… I wasn’t planning on spending 4hrs in the sun, oops.
