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Rodney Times : May 16th 2013
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Millwater sites available now! You will need to move fast to secure these home and land packages! We have options available in Millwater, Orewa, Warkworth and Omaha. Call in and see us at either our display home in Millwater or our Sales Office in Warkworth. THC_RT011 Display Home: 8 Laura Jane Drive, Millwater, Silverdale. Open Daily 10am-4pm Sales Office: Cnr SH1 & Woodcocks Rd, Warkworth. Open Mon - Fri 10 am-4pm Sat & Sun 12-4pm REGISTERED MASTER BUILDER 0800 600 620 www.thehouseco.co.nz Thursday, May 16, 2013 NETWORK Unbeatable coverage of readers 15+ 808,000 Auckland's most powerful media Ph 09 525 0666 Source: Nielsen CMI Q3 2011--Q2 2012 Rare find: Chris Martin with the sunfish washed up at Omaha. Ocean giant discovered Attempts to save a huge sunfish washed up at Omaha Beach were unsuccessful. But the rare visitor, a 2.1 metre sharptail mola, is expected to become a museum piece. It was found at the southern end of the beach around 9am on Tuesday by walker Diana Hicks. ''I tried with two friends to push it back into the water,'' she says. ''It stayed there a while, but in an hour I went back and it was on the shore again, dead.'' Chris Martin, who does security patrols at Omaha, checked the fish which he says weighs about 200 kilograms. ''It was quite amazing to see a sunfish in so close to shore as they are normally found quite deep. I suspect this one may have been sick.'' Adult sunfish are the world's heaviest bony fish at 1000kg (a ton). They usually feed on jellyfish and can be found in tropical and temperate waters, anywhere up to 600 metres deep. Auckland museum research manager and marine biology curator Tom Trnski collected the fish after measuring it and taking samples of parasites on it, Omaha marine biologist Roger Grace says. ''The Auckland museum has facilities to freeze the sunfish, but then they will send it to Te Papa in Wellington where they have better facilities to preserve it permanently and study it,'' he says. Visit rodneytimes.co.nz and click on Latest Edition to see more photos. Wedding whirl By CARALISE TRAYES Wonderful wedding: Darrin Robertson surprised Wanda with a morning proposal and afternoon wedding. Photo: MOYA CREATIVE Go to rodneytimes.co.nz and click on Latest Edition for the bride's diary and more photos. FROM proposal to marriage took just seven hours for Darrin and Wanda Robertson. Darrin proposed on Friday morn- ing and by that afternoon the bride was walking down the aisle at Matakana Country Lodge. It was a complete surprise for Wanda who thought Darrin was organising a trip to Queenstown to celebrate her 40th birthday. Darrin was very excited leading up to my birthday. It was a bit strange. I thought it was because he had planned something special,'' Wanda says. He had, but not what she was expecting. The first clues came by 8am when she got a knock on her bedroom door and was led down her Albany home hallway by friends holding signs describing how wonderful she is. We had been thinking about get- ting married for a couple of years,'' Darrin says. We had the kids and were saving for a house, all those life things. Because we are a bit older we kept putting it off, then I thought this could go on forever'. This year was a quiet one, except for Wanda's 40th birthday and I wanted to plan something special. At the end of January the idea came that I should propose, and we could get married on the same day.'' Wanda walked into their lounge on Friday morning to find Darrin waiting on one knee holding a sign saying because you have my heart, I'm asking for your hand. Will you marry me . . . today'. She was a stunned mullet,'' Dar- rin says. For someone who always has something to say, she had tears in her eyes and was silent. It was brilliant.'' Wanda was whisked away to a bridal shop to choose her dress before the ceremony at 3pm. Darrin says Wanda is usually the organiser and he is hopeless'' at it. But the idea with the wedding was that I have everything organ- ised so she wouldn't have to stress. I was quietly confident she would go along with it. I picked a bridesmaid for her. Originally my idea was to get the bridesmaid to choose the wedding dress, but she freaked out . . . I decided it would be better for Wanda to pick her own at a bridal shop,'' Darrin says. Wanda says the wedding was totally surreal'' and Darrin made all the right decisions. I wouldn't have changed a thing, it was perfect. We had a French croque en bouche wedding cake made -- from watching MasterChef he knew I wanted one,'' Wanda says. He chose my favourite flowers, frangi- pani, in my bouquet. He has never bought me flowers before. He chose the perfect rings. He obviously listens to me.'' The ceremony was full of personal touches with bridesmaids walking down the aisle to the Darth Vader theme song, The Imperial March from Star Wars. Darrin had that song as his ring tone when I call him on his cell phone,'' Wanda says. He had written his own vows and memorised them and wrote mine for me. There were lots of per- sonal jokes and the vows were great.'' The couple married at Matakana Country Lodge and celebrated with dinner at Matakana Marketplace Kitchen. The next morning they took a helicopter to Auckland Airport and flew to Queenstown for a four-day honeymoon. See wandas-wedding.com for more on the wedding. THE BIG DAY 8am: Proposal. 8.30am: To the dress shop for bubbly and to pick a dress. 1pm: Arrive at the venue. Team up with the bridesmaid and into the back rooms for more bubbly, make up and hair. 2pm: Guests arrive. 3pm: The band announces the bride's arrival. 3.30pm: The couple marry. Time for that cold beer and some photos. 6pm: Dinner at Matakana Marketplace Kitchen.
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