Webcam Tour : New Zealand’s Hawkes’ Bay
Hawke’s Bay is the country’s oldest wine making region and is New Zealand’s leading producer of award winning red wines.
Many South Africans (myself included) enjoy its unusually sunny (for New Zealand) climate, beautiful scenery, and easily-accessible walks, beaches, and outdoor activities.
You can take a peek into Hawkes bay with the following two webcams..
Hastings, New Zealand’s Wine Country
The Tuki Vineyard has a webcam overlooking their beautiful vineyards. They’ve also compiled a full day’s video into a 2MB, 30 second movie. Well worth watching. One of the world’s 500 smallest vineyards, they also have a charming one-bedroom cottage available at $200-$250 per night (min 2 nights).
Napier, New Zealand’s Art Deco City
Airnet, a wireless internet provider in Hawkes Bay, have a webcam overlooking Napier’s CBD and southern suburbs, with Cape Kidnappers in the distance.
Following a massive earthquake (7.9 on the Richter scale) on the morning of Tuesday 3 February 1931, fires destroyed most of the commercial heart of Napier. The city was rebuilt in the style of that era and by the end of the decade Napier was the newest city on the globe.
More New Zealand Webcams
This post will ultimately be one in a series, highlighting webcams in the different geographical regions of New Zealand. The ultimate list of New Zealand webcams (which inspired my indepth series) can be found at www.webcams.co.nz.
Apr 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Great post - Go Webcams in NZ!!
Webcams don’t need to be expensive to install. Its amazing how easy it is, and the benefit you get from traffic and interest in your business or website - or maybe just as a personal resource.
Takeabreak.co.nz has put in a few now, and it’s great to see others doing the same! Our goal is to get one in every town in the South Island.
Apr 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I’d like to convince more businesses in Napier to setup webcams.. given that it’s such a tourist destination, and (as you quite rightly say), a great PR exercise, it’s well worth doing.
Apr 4th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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Apr 8th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Maybe we could put one in every street in South Africa and create a catalogue of all the different ways one can rob a house!
Apr 8th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Uum.. Dunx.. then the webcams would be stolen? :p
Apr 8th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I didn’t think of that! You have obviously not been out of ZA long enough… your mind still works like a local!!!