A view of 'The Mount' at Mt Maunganui taked from the wharf at nearby Pilot Bay.
Last One Standing
The idea here is to knock your opponent off their perch, last one standing wins. The young lady facing the camera won :)
Gypys In Town
The Gypsy Fair arrived in Hamilton on the weekend.
According to Wikipedia The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that a gypsy is a
member of a wandering race (by themselves called Romany), of Hindu origin, which first appeared in England about the beginning of the 16th c. (by hotchkiss) and was then believed to have come from Egypt.
According to the OED, the word was first used in English in 1514, with several more uses in the same century, and that both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used the word.
The word 'Gypsy' derives from 'Egyptian, the same as the Spanish Gitano or the French Gitan. It emerged in Europe, in the 15th century, after their migration into the land of the Romani people (or Roma) in that continent.[2] They received this name from the local people either because they spread in Europe from an area named Little Egypt, in Southern Balkans or because they fitted the European image of dark-skinned Egyptians skilled in witchcraft.
When they first arrived at numerous places in Europe they claimed to be from Egypt, and required to travel for seven years as penance for apostacy. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was written in various ways: Egipcian, Egypcian, 'gipcian, 'gypcian. As the time elapsed, the notion of Gypsy evolved including other stereotypes, like nomadism, exoticism. John Matthews in The World Atlas of Divination refer to gypsies as "Wise Women."
Bike Stand
With the backdrop of Tauranga Harbour a seat is used to prop up a bike at Pilot Bay, Mount Maunganui.
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