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Capturing summer in an accordion sketchbook

 

(By Murray Dewhurst in Hihi)

It took hours to pack our car up for our yearly camping trip last week and it was packed to the ceiling. We had everything – except a new sketchbook. I'd finished one just before Christmas. I have another Grey Book on the go, but they're not so good for the subject matter I was planning to sketch 'up north' on our camping trip.

Eventually I found an A6 concertina sketchbook in the bookshelf and decided that would have to do. It's been kicking around home for a few years and I can't remember the brand (it has a round blind debossed logo embedded into it's cloth cover, but it's a tad blurry so I can't tell what it says).

Sketching in a concertina sketchbook is something I hadn't done before, but a lot of fun as it turns out.

We tried a camp up north this year at a place called Hihi. We discovered a recently refurbished camp with loads of shady old trees to read (and sketch) under.

It's very near Taupo Bay which is a superb place for a surf and is fringed by several eroded volcanic cones.

The old whaling/fishing village of Mangonui is on the other side of the harbour too. It's an easy paddle or 15 minute drive from our camp. A great place to buy fresh seafood or relax with a beer in the old pub with it's eccentric characters, a cockatoo and historic memorabilia.

I sketched some letterboxes at Hihi. I really liked the whare letterbox in the middle.

We discovered Butlers Bay Whaling Museum in Hihi. Apparently this was the first whaling station in NZ which was our first export. Times have certainly changed since dead sperm whales in various states of decay would have littered the bay! We were given a tour of the Butler's original cottage, whaling boats, harpoons like the lethal looking black powder harpoon above, enormous Sperm whale skeletons and tri pots (the large pots used to render down whale blubber into oil). 

Once loaded with 1000 or so barrels of whale oil, vessels would carry their payload back up to places like Connecticut via Cape Horn. A regular visitor was the Charles W Morgan whose restoration has been sketched so eloquently by Veronica Lawlor.

This is Matai Bay at the end of Karikari peninsular. Confusingly it's actually 2 bays and a really long white sandy beach, all equally stunning. With beaches like these there really is no need to go to Tahiti.

These old cottages in Hihi are very sketchable and finished the book nicely.

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