Four Hundred Feet Straight Down

Pictures Of Interest To All

In the picture above, the camera is looking straight down for 400 feet, from the top of the big chimney being built at the oil-fired power station near Marsden Point, Whangarei. This must be easily the greatest vertical drop in the country. It looks down on matchbox-like buildings which are themselves of massive construction.

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Machines working near the water's edge at Bream Bay look like toys from the top of the stack.

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The top section of the chimney, showing the steel framework above which the boxing former is raised in stages.