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In the two previous posts

I did a very unusual thing.

I showed two photos without

any words. In more than

700 posts I'd never done this

before. This time I'll post words

without any pictures.

That'll be a first too.

I wanted to see the photos

presented in a clean way

without the static of words.

The photo of the beam pump

I took last Friday afternoon here

at Moturoa in New Plymouth.

The oil and gas field, right on the

edge of town and by the port,

was the first in New Zealand

to be commercially explored.

In 1865 gas was discovered at 7 metres

and oil at 20.

The petrochemical industry is now

a major part of the economy of this

region.

The photo of the gun I already blogged about on March 2nd,

however I wanted to bring it forward so that

I could see what the two looked like next to

each other.