“Start off slow… and then ease up. It’s summer”
The headline above comes from a t-shirt that the boys at Off Center Harbor gave me and it fits todays story perfectly. Some photos that drop into my inbox go straight to the ‘WoW Keeper’ file – todays is one of those, it comes to us ex Tauranga Library archives via Dean Wright.
The chap in the deck chair doesn’t look like he has been on the end of a paint brush, maybe an owner supervising the work, or maybe just taking in the vista. What ever he is doing I think we all need to do more of it 🙂
The photo is tagged ;ady-Julie Nov 1960, I suspect that is a typo and it should read – Lady-Julie, so woodys are we able to ID launch in the background?
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the man in deck chair is fishing using the stick to hold the line above the sand and is holding a reel in his hand.you can see the line.
You are right – well spotted. Alan H
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Give the man a break Alan he has just scraped all the barnacles off the deadwood and is taking a well earned breather -it is late in the day after all -by the sun, and the shop wont open till Monday morning for a gallon of Red Hand antifoul!
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