Napier, Friday night

Here are some of the Victorian cottages on a hillside in Napier. Many of the smaller wooden homes seem to have been spared the earthquake that devastated the downtown in the early 1930's.


Here is one of the shops in the central part of Napier, several blocks back from the beach.


Even though this is the start of Napier's winter, on a walk through town, I saw plenty of flowers in bloom. A local biology teacher told me that they will get frosts later on in the winter, crucial in forcing the buds of fruit trees in the surrounding orchards. Right now it has been in the forties (F) in the nights and low sixties by mid-day.

Here is a palm in front one of the Victorian cottages in the residential district just to the north of the commercial district of Napier.


Here is a small mini-golf course along the edge of the beach in Napier, very subdued by American standards. No windmills, fiberglass animals, or cartoon characters lining the fairways.




Boys performing a traditional Maori Haka at Lindisfarne College, Hastings.