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    Mar 14, 2014 4:30:00 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    We went up to the big smoke, Auckland for a Porsche Club soiree

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    Mar 14, 2014 4:32:34 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Here's the Porsche dog Ziggy by our Jag with his dad a Porsche Club Officer.  The guys are great and their hospitality is wonderfulSmileySmileySmileySmileySmiley

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    Ziggy is a Swedish Val Hund, a sooooo cuuuuuuute.

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    Mar 14, 2014 4:34:50 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Meanwhile our F Club shirts arrived back at the beach...angry  With my GT3 that was supposed to hit Auckland in July on hold....  I'm thinking about getting a 458 or HGTE  until Porsche get their act together on GT3.  The jokes about GT3s at the Porsche dinner last night were scathing........

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    Mar 17, 2014 3:11:51 PM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    watt:

    Meanwhile our F Club shirts arrived back at the beach...angry  With my GT3 that was supposed to hit Auckland in July on hold....  I'm thinking about getting a 458 or HGTE  until Porsche get their act together on GT3.  The jokes about GT3s at the Porsche dinner last night were scathing........

     

    Not a bad consolation prize Watt. I guess you unable to source a decent CS? 

    Mar 18, 2014 7:27:11 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    hard to find good Strad, just check out the price escalation in England for RHD on pistoneads.... over just 4 months it's ridic.Smiley

    I'm asking Benson his advice....

     

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    Mar 18, 2014 7:33:03 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    we had a nice storm, blowing 50 knots in Storm's honour

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    Mar 18, 2014 7:36:00 AM

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    Mar 18, 2014 7:39:52 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    then back to normal 80 degrees, Benson hangin' with Jack the Jack puppy on our 10 mile beach walk today [the beach is 8miles long end to end]

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    Mar 18, 2014 7:44:11 AM

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    Mar 19, 2014 7:30:17 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    a terrible sea  creature attacks

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    Mar 20, 2014 12:52:15 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    your terrible sea creature reminds me of the shark photobomb

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    Mar 23, 2014 3:22:36 AM

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    Gladstone:

    your terrible sea creature reminds me of the shark photobomb

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    Yikes,

     

    I'll stick with Benson MonsterSmiley

     

    Wiley rolled  in from Stanford at 5.17 am at AKL and set up his office in WB.

     

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    Mar 23, 2014 3:25:02 AM

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    Here's the largest gold mine in NZ, the Martha Mine over in Waihi.  It's a pretty tiny pit for old copper porphyry geologists like me, but still fun.

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    Mar 26, 2014 8:44:26 AM

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    Beach sculpture

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    Mar 26, 2014 8:49:13 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Pohukatawa Tress, these likely 400 years old

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    Mar 26, 2014 4:18:46 PM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    thank you for these amazing pics .. they really do brighten up and distract me from the grey, cloudy and cold London skyline.

    Mar 26, 2014 5:55:27 PM

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    sfo:

    thank you for these amazing pics .. they really do brighten up and distract me from the grey, cloudy and cold London skyline.

    +1 Same here (but in Prague). New Zealand must be an amazing country.

    Mar 29, 2014 5:39:41 AM

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    Dawn of the black dog

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    Mar 29, 2014 5:44:14 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Benson visits  Bowen Head looking Southeast to the North end of Tauranga Harbour

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    Mar 29, 2014 5:47:10 AM

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    Looking NorthWest from Bowen Head the entire length of Waihi Beach to the Coromandel the mountains at the end of the beach

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    Mar 29, 2014 5:51:51 AM

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    Father, Son and Benson reach the end of the Endless Summer.  What a fab place!  Thanks for your hospitality Benson! 

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    Mar 29, 2014 6:53:05 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Thanks for the photos . What a stunning place ! It reminds me a bit of some of the South African between Port Elisabeth and Cape town


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    Mar 31, 2014 12:43:35 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Last walk with dearest Benson

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    Meeting a Scotty, a big children's surf swim event in the background..

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    Mar 31, 2014 12:45:44 AM

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    The ferry docks in Auckland

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    Mar 31, 2014 12:48:31 AM

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    Re: SUN'S LAST RUN TO WILSON, WY - 991 C2S CAB LIFE, END OF AN ERA Thread Closed

    Back in the land of his Lordship and Sky so good to see their hoary faces

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    Apr 1, 2014 3:30:16 AM

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    Age 93 in human years, and Sun can still do three miles!  Blanca spoiled them so a little chub has to go, he's a little wobbly in the legs, but its almost a year since the surgeon claimed he was about to die of Lou Gehrig's diseasekiss

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    Much as we loved cruising with Benson, It's good to have his Lordship back as co-pilot and Sky as rear gunnerwink

     

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    Apr 5, 2014 2:38:48 AM

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    With only one rear gunner [sob]  we're back in triple bluekiss

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    Apr 5, 2014 2:39:53 AM

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    Back to normal......

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    Apr 20, 2014 11:36:41 PM

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    after Easter Sunrise Service on Zuma Beach, Malibu,  the boys. Happy Easter!!!

     

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    Apr 25, 2014 9:13:20 PM

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    "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Heaven [today]l followed with him" --  today we said good bye to Tiger our king ratter cat but Heaven not Hell follows for him, after 20 fun years.  God Bless you big guy, see you in the sky.

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