Auckland Uni Students....

**notme** · 3rd January 2007, 21:58

Originally Posted by Ixion

I spent quite a few years wobbling round there, a good bit of it subterranean. ..........

What, you did the tunnels under Albert park on yer bike?

**Disco Dan** · 3rd January 2007, 23:00

Originally Posted by allun

What, you did the tunnels under Albert park on yer bike?

Theres tunnels? cool! will have a look!

WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!

**Ixion** · 3rd January 2007, 23:02

Thats good, You realise that roads always look totally different by daylight to what they look at night.

Yes, there are tunnels. A whole town in fact, chambers and rooms and so on. But the miserable buggers have blocked off the entrances now. Never saw anything interesting in them, the ones in North head were better.

**crashe** · 3rd January 2007, 23:03

Well I meet Disco Dan at Westgate......
He managed to find that ok......

I lead him all the way up to Symonds Street and we waited there for Gremlin to arrive on Symonds St/ Newton Rd.

So there we are waiting and we spot this biker on a green bike shoot throu the lights... I thought it couldnt be....... so we waited and waited....... I went for a wander and there was Gremlin waiting down in Newton Rd...

Yikes we have two that dont follow instructions that good.....

So we decided that Gremlin should lead the way as he knows the uni better than us two.....

So off we go and down Symonds St we tootle...
Gremlin showed DD where to park once we got over that gravel patch....
Then shows him the other place to park outside the Maidenment Theatre...
Off we wander........DD showing us the way.....via the written instructions..
Yes he almost got us LOST..... Read it properly young fella.

After all that we decided that DD should lead us out of the city back to the motorway.... he tells us which way..... and then at a set of lights as I say about continue up over K'Rd to upper Queen Street to Newton Rd... he changes his mind we are going another way.... Up Hobson Rd.....

So I assume he has made it home as I left him on his travels as I got off at Te Atatu.

So DD, on the 6th off ramp (Newton Rd) get off the nor western motorway..... up Newton Rd to Symonds set of lights. .... turn left in Symonds St....... to.................. next bit your on your own.... hehehehe.

**Disco Dan** · 3rd January 2007, 23:03

Thanks you crashe and gremlin for showing me around!!! I especially liked the 'secret' bike parking!!

I will sleep soundly tonight, safe in the knowledge I wont get lost going to that horrid city campus!! Im looking forward to getting back to the security of the little epsom campus already!

**Disco Dan** · 3rd January 2007, 23:09

Originally Posted by BuFfY

I could help you round Epsom campus.... maybe... I am rather directionally challenged myself!!

um yeah thanks Buffy, but I know my way around Epsom! been there a year now, and even then its arranged in a logical fashion!

The city campas is way to big !

Why didnt they just build one giant building... would be so much easier.

Dam summer school...

Well see you on the 26th Feb Buffy...

**Gremlin** · 3rd January 2007, 23:37

Originally Posted by crashe

So there we are waiting and we spot this biker on a green bike shoot throu the lights... I thought it couldnt be....... so we waited and waited....... I went for a wander and there was Gremlin waiting down in Newton Rd...

Yikes we have two that dont follow instructions that good.....

wot cha talking aboot kb mum? I was just off the intersection, figuring I would see you when you came up... but you had already got there...

musta been my cone fighting down the motorway that slowed me down

anyhoo... DD... please, if you get lost in the middle of uni... read the instructions word for word, rather than skipping some, and taking the wrong left and rights

Hope your day goes fine...

**Disco Dan** · 4th January 2007, 06:27

Originally Posted by Gremlin

wot cha talking aboot kb mum? I was just off the intersection, figuring I would see you when you came up... but you had already got there...

musta been my cone fighting down the motorway that slowed me down

anyhoo... DD... please, if you get lost in the middle of uni... read the instructions word for word, rather than skipping some, and taking the wrong left and rights

Hope your day goes fine...

Cheers dude, going to leave at 8am this morning... just in case

**Ixion** · 4th January 2007, 07:41

Well, he should be well under way by now. I wonder where he'll end up. If he does get into that maze of tunnels under the park, we wil certainly never see him again.

**crashe** · 4th January 2007, 07:45

Let us all cross our fingers and toes that he makes it there all in one go....

**notme** · 4th January 2007, 09:36

What a be-a-you-tifull day to be inside, filling yer brain!

EDIT: for those interested in the tunnels: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourk...t/journey.html

**Disco Dan** · 4th January 2007, 11:38

Made it !!! Now that was easy!!! hehehe!!!

some smart arse put an advert for a GPS thingy on my bike while it was parked.... cheeky!

The madness that is the city campas seems to be never ending, as we had a 2 hour lecture then we all had to walk and follow the lecturer 15 min up the road to sit and discuss it... in an identical fricking room! flob knows why we couldnt have just stayed put... idiots that run tha place im sure...

**Ixion** · 4th January 2007, 12:19

Originally Posted by allun

What a be-a-you-tifull day to be inside, filling yer brain!

EDIT: for those interested in the tunnels: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/other/albert/journey.html

That map (and account) just covers the little end bit.

This map http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/other/albert/overall.html

shows the complete 1941 tunnel layout. But what is not always realised is that the 1941 tunnels are not the whole story, because the 1941 work incorporated a lot of excavation that they found, which dated to the days when the park was a barracks. There were 19th century underground bunkers, bombproof shelters , ammo stores , armouries etc. A lot of the underground stuff was incorporated in the 1941 work

Years ago, if you knew where the entrance was (before a lot of bloody Grundys had it sealed up) you could wander round quite happily in there , albeit with a little care .Of course, then it was not so very old, the old (19C) work was in quite good nick though.

Those may have been my beer bottles, it was a good place for a drinking session.

The ones at North head were better though.

**crashe** · 4th January 2007, 12:49

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

Made it !!! Now that was easy!!! hehehe!!!

some smart arse put an advert for a GPS thingy on my bike while it was parked.... cheeky!

The madness that is the city campas seems to be never ending, as we had a 2 hour lecture then we all had to walk and follow the lecturer 15 min up the road to sit and discuss it... in an identical fricking room! flob knows why we couldnt have just stayed put... idiots that run tha place im sure...

Most likely another lecturer and his students needed that room for 15 minutes....

All part of campus life.....

See I told you it was easy.......

where is the next place that you need to find.... so that we can organise the next midnight run.......