(11/20/03)
The last couple of days have been devoted to setting up housekeeping, making R’s work life functional, and getting ready to leave for 13 days. I now sport an All-Blacks official 2003 World Cup rugby hat. My film processed cleanly – as Effie says “no worries” when I begin photographing in earnest.
R and [...]
I covered the waterfront today – gave myself a good orientation to downtown Auckland. I now possess a bus pass, enough tourist brochures to wallpaper my bathroom, and I am testing out a film processing company. (Was it really necessary for Air Tahiti Nui to put us off the plane in order to [...]
Our gear passed the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry inspection for dangerous importation of noxious pests. The boots seemed as dangerous as R’s antibodies for his research. The guy in front of us in line was returned his tent only after the MAF washed it. Ours was deemed clean enough.
Air Tahiti Nui [...]
Rehabbed Nikon N80
3 lb tripod
65 rolls of film
new Singh-Ray ND filters
diffuser for wildflowers
compact flash (less than 4 oz) to get tramping camping pictures of R
3 sizes of knitting needles for NZ wool
laptop, LaCie drive, scans of slides to Photoshop
2 big Photoshop books to study
dive skin for snorkeling w/o sunburn
backpacks, sleeping bags and the camping coffee [...]
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