Development Images
A few families with a vision to develop an area on the coast with a lowcoastal impact have cleaned up and beautified the area and giftedpublic access to what was once private land to the Aramoana Beach. Witha bit of good old fashioned hard work the families consisting of students, lawyers, farmers, accountants, veterinarians, and friends, turned their hands to earth moving, pipe laying,planting and cultivating, to create what is today is an attractive areawith a public thoroughfare to the beach.
After many months of clearing the exotic plants, trees, shrubs, septic tanks, old pine stumps, rusting iron, building materials, caravan sumps, plastic, bottles, and years of the previous camping ground soakpits and buried rubbish. The site was cleared, and prepared, ready for beach section sites and large open spaces of common ground with drainage.
This is a collection of images during that very hot dusty summer of 2003 for the Moxy, digger, bulldozer, the water truck, and the compacter drivers who all prepared the site for grass, plants and roads. This was a summer of eating dirt, huge heat, wind, and filth. The days were 7am starts with 15 minutes for smoko, 30 minutes for lunch, 15 minutes for afternoon tea, with a 6pm finish. Then it was re-fuelling, greasing and time sheets.
