Remembrance of a Traditional Catholic Marriage on Tuesday 21 November 2023; The Presentation of the BVM

 

 

Remembrance of a Traditional Catholic Marriage; Tuesday 21 November, 2023, The Presentation of the BVM

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 Hayley Westenra Sings Ave Maria - Gounard

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Donkey Serenade - Firefly Movie

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Starlight Serenade - Richard Tauber

 

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Pedro The Fisherman - Richard Tauber

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All The Way From America-Joan Armatrading

 

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All The Way From America - with Lyrics

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Traditional Latin Low Mass

 

Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 21 November, 1986

Mass of the Common of the Virgin Mary

Ave Maria Chapel,  CTM, New York

Celebrant: Fr. Gommar De Pauw

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Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island

 24 November, 2023 (originally posted December, 2017)

By Special Request - South New Brighton, Christchurch ...

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The 52nd Anniversary of the Sub -Antarctic Campbell Island 1965/1966 Expedition ... A Mainly Pictorial Review

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Campbell Island, Perseverance Harbour, showing wharf, living quarters - hostel (foreground) and Meteorological Station/Upper Air Balloon Hut, etc. (background).

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Background

 

Campbell Island lies about 400 miles SSE of Stewart Island, New Zealand, just south of the roaring 40's and into the howling 50's, at a latitude of 52 deg 33' 26" S. lat., 169 deg 08' 41"E. long.

It is small, covering about 40 square miles, and about 10 miles north to south and east to west, rugged with precipitous sea cliffs, buffeted by the storm swept waters of the Southern Ocean, and there are many spectacular off shore islets.

 

The weather conditions on Campbell Island are unpredictable, with overcast skies and gale force winds the normal, but there are quiet days of brilliant sunshine. [ Sunshine hours for the year are around 600 hours].  Although temperatures are uniformly low, snowfalls are rare with rainfall around 48 inches a year.

Campbell Island was discovered by Campbell & Company in 1810,  when the sailing ship Perseverance, commanded by Captain Frederick Hasselburgh, was engaged in searching for  fresh fields to replace sealing grounds which under indiscriminate plunder, were now failing to supply payable cargoes.  He named one of two islands he discovered, Campbell Island, after the owner of his vessel.

 

 

Later on in the 1940's it was used as a coastal watch station, and after the closing of the coastal watch station in 1945, was set up as a Meteorological Station under the jurisdiction of the Air Department, being strategically located for weather observations, with surface and upper air information using  radiosonde balloons sending back data on pressure, temperature and humidity, this in turn with other data, being reported back to Wellington to be used in forecasting New Zealand weather.

Radiosonde upper air balloon sends back data on temperature, pressure and humidity to ground station.

 

Campbell Island may not be as spectacular for its plant life as its northern neighbor, the Auckland Islands,

 

 

 

  but it has a unique animal and bird population, with huge sea elephants which litter the shores of the harbours, sea lions abound on the sandy beaches and grassy slopes, and wary fur seals are moderately plentiful on the exposed rocky coats.

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Sea Elephant

 

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Sea Lion

 

 

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  Pleurophyllum criniferum

 

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Rockhopper Penguin

Rockhopper penguins nest in the millions, grey-headed and black-browed mollymawks star their colonies in tens of thousands, and the island is the stronghold of the well-named royal albatross.

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  Rockhopper Penguins

The colony of rockhopper penguins below Mt. Paris has been estimated to contain two and a half million birds.

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Albatrosses - Royal

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Royal Albatross

 

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Royal Albatross Chick

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Sooty Albatross

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Rugged Coastline

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Other stuff - Campbell Island wharf with Campbell Island Shags on watch

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The 1965/1966 Expedition - The Arrival via U.S. DER T.J. Gary /U.S. DER Calcaterra

U.S DER 326 T.J. GARY

 

U.S. DER 390 CALCATERRA

 

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Station Life - Official Line Up!

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Informalities with lots of Leopard!

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Station Amusements and Leisure

 

 

 Bird banding Royal Albatross for some...

 

 

 

 Sea Elephant has much to Say

 

Friendly Sea Lion ... one eye on me and one eye on the other fella'

Welshman Peter Hughes shows us all how it's done and not a drop was lost...note the brewer's elbow, from whence the pub, ''The Brewer's Elbow"derived its name ...😒

In the Pink Room- Opening the first bottle day- John: "Now don't be in a hurry there young Peter ...careful and remember I have the first clear glassful ...you others will have the worry about how to avoid sediment which inevitably will be stirred up and end in your glass...so don't say i didn't warn you first 😉
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Saturday Night Social Gathering - The Compulsory Campbell Island Folk Ensemble accompanied by and led by the self proclaimed and only instrumentalist of any sort on the Island spirited on with a wee drop of the Irish and whatever else was near at hand whilst attempting 'Seven ol' Ladies' ....😒

 

 

 

 

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"Well now, as the self-appointed Campbell Island Brewery Inspector, it falls within my jurisdiction and responsibility to declare that since we only put down 180 bottles of the liquid amber, and we have 6 months 'till the first ship comes, that's 180 days approx. we will need to restrict our drinkies to 'hamming' nights only ... that's twice a week, not including Fridays and Saturdays, being film nights ...Mmmm, it's got wee bite to it, hasn't it ... and quite malty too!   ... we could label it Campbell Island Original 52 South Malted Beer. Yes?"

"Oh ... and by the way, has anybody seen me glasses?"

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Christmas Time Is Here - 1965

 From Left to Right:  John Squibb (Senior Met), Peter Shone (Met), Peter Hughes (Ionosphere Tech), Gordon Surrey (Cook), Doug Leigh Ionisphere), Allan Guard (Mechanic)

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Meteorological Enclosure with Mt. Dumas (1526') in the background.

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Mt. Dumas (1526') with a liberal coating of snow backdrop to meteorological enclosure

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Masten matting leading to hostel accommodation, food store etc after a light fall of snow.

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 Red Billed Gulls and Campbell Island Shags

 

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A Pleasant Walk Not Far From Camp - on the handy No.9 Sea Elephant Bus Route (Gold Card Holders Accepted) - Tucker Cove or Camp Cove?

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The Author in his Campbell Island 'hay day'!

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"And it's 'goodbye from me ... Do visit us again, sometime, won't you?"

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Looking north: Courrejolles Peninsula on horizon

[For the young lady ( Art Graduate ) from South New Brighton, who requested this special commemoration blog ...  wouldn't this make a fine subject to put on canvas?]

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