I've been looking at a lot of pictures on the net and have really enjoyed the New Zealand scenes that BG posted. I also liked the vintage Cushman pics at www.hobbytech.com.

Everytime I see a picture of New Zealand, it reminds me of Hawaii. I know the climate and lots of things are different, but they are both volcanic islands with beautiful beaches and rugged mountains. Volcanic islands are relatively new, geologically speaking, and that makes them very different from the 300,000,000 (plus) year-old mountains where I live. They have all those extrusive igneous rocks while we have sedimentary and metamorphics like limestone, marble, slate, shale, sandstone, quatzite and stuff like that. We have to go to Georgia or North Carolina to find granite.

I love islands and oceans. Sometimes I wonder why I live 400 miles inland. I guess if global warming melts the ice in Antarctica, I'll be glad to live 940 feet above sea level!

Oops! I'm rambling again.(Check out Jim's pictures on the hobbytech site.)
Howard