Sometimes the most mundane places bring unexpected surprises. I’ve seen the wondering anemone only three times in my life. Always in Browns Bay in Auckland. It is a typical Auckland city beach with water clarity between zero and perhaps five meters, sandy bottom with some flat rocks covered with coastal brown algae. Real surprises can […]
The narrow mouth of Whangarei Harbour is a place of strong currents which bring a lot of nutrients for filter feeders. While the nearby marine reserve offers interesting snorkeling, scuba equipment is necessary to truly enjoy the riches of the reserve. Fields of hydroids, sea anemones and large colourful sponges await the visitor in depths […]
Sometimes almost a miracle happens. Mahurangi Harbour near Auckland is surrounded by farmland and new housing developments on mostly clay soil. That means the fine sediments are being washed into the harbour. The water is murky, the bottom becomes muddy, all the life forms suffocate. But sometimes a miracle happens. The water gets surprisingly clear […]
In Christianity without inner transformation: * Ethics leads to legalism * Theology leads to dry orthodoxy, schisms and heresies * Charity leads to activism But Christianity is none of them.
Mahurangi Harbour after a week: * With working flashlights * At low tide so in very dirty water * Very sad state of the bottom observed … fine sediment everywhere, pests spreading, original fauna/flora disappearing The pictures are not of a great value, but they document the current state of Otarawao/Sullivans Bay.
The “Reformation” despoiled the working classes of their patrimony; it tore from them that which nature and reason had assigned them; it robbed them of that relief for the necessitous, which was theirs by right imprescriptible, and which had been confirmed to them by the law of God and the law of the land. It […]