PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING : DON'T READ THIS IF YOU FEEL THAT PEOPLE HAVING BEEN GOOD LITTLE CITIZENS AND ALLOWED TO HAVE A BIT OF FUN MIGHT UPSET YOU😁

We had our yearly beach concert tonight at Orewa Beach (fund raising for the Orewa Surf Lifesaving Club) Beautiful warm moonlit night, live band and around 10,000 people there. Great fireworks display at 9.00 pm with 2 local yachts moored off the beach (would be hundreds if we weren't so far from Auckland - (about a 60 mile return trip if they wanted to come) Beautiful area, but very few boats moored up this way due to being open to the ocean, with sometimes huge waves in storms. There was a runabout offshore as well and they did a small private display from the boat as it motored around (small green pic) before the main display.

Pics and vid are rubbish, as I just used my tiny keycam type camera which needs a lot of light to work properly (ok in daylight) I've enhanced a few of the pics to make them a bit clearer as it was pretty much dark except for a full moon. I walked down from my place and didn't want to carry a large camera all the way (just over 2 miles round trip)

A small kid on a large scooter ran into me on the big beach path where hundreds of people were walking to the event, and I didn't realise my phone had dropped off its clip for a hundred yards or so. I went back to the spot to see if it was there (not holding out much hope) and saw a guy on a phone there. I asked him if he had seen a stray phone, and he said "you mean this one, I've just called your son"😁 (he happened to ring a random number on my list) Very happy to get it back, - cheap phone but the hassle of replacing is a pain. Nice SA guy (was his kid that ran into me)- think he is holidaying in the big council caravan park there, - might have to see if I can find him and drop a bottle of something off. There are still some honest people out there😊👍👍

It will be very interesting to see if any virus comes out of this, as none of the thousands had masks and were all close, ie pretty much a mass crowd of all ages. One very interesting point I saw someone make on line last night was,-how is it, with all these years of the flu being around, how come no-one has come up with an effective vaccine, but they have suddenly come up with one for this virus????. The flu vaccine they have made is pretty much useless, as the viruses change and adapt constantly and it's really only good for one strain (also some people say after having it, they have never been sicker in their lives.) The same would be true for the present Corona virus I would think. All a big money making racket by drug companies, (imagine all the cold and flu remedies etc they wouldn't sell any more if they could cure these viruses.) By only half curing them, it keeps them in business, (along with massive funding from govts.) Imagine the billions they will make from this!!

JB