Bean Rock: Building an 'Isolated' Community

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Bean Rock - Auckland, New Zealand



Table of Contents - Part One


Introduction to Bean Rock
Vanderburg
Nevis Landing
Photo - Waitemata Harbour
CDK - Development
CDK Development - Auckland Waterfront

Google Earth - Simcity Re-creation
Port of Auckland - inner harbour wharves, beaches and bays
Bean Rock - in game
Bledisloe Wharf and Captain Cook Wharf
Photo - me and my boys.
Photo Update - Auckland Waterfront

Views - 1000
Port of Auckland Slideshow
Sandbox
Pre-custom content
Two Images
The bouys are back in town

Region Update
Middle Earth in ... Timbucktu!
Diversion to Minas Tirith - Junction Bridge
Winter Hibernation:  Spring is in the air!
Minas Tirith:  Tutorial - Land Bridge
Big John's Mine

Raurimu Spiral
Return to Weather Top - MTP Residential
Photos - Raurimu Spiral
Junction Bridge
Flash Back
Power to the People

Rohan
Rohan - The Full Monty / Samflush River
Gray Haven
Gray Haven is a Crime Haven!
Gasification!
Photo Update - South Island, New Zealand

Photo Update - Tyburn Monastary
Views - 5K
Rural Subway?!
Request Made, Request Granted, Request Now Operational
Big City Tutorial
3RR - Telephone Poles

Canaltopia
Canaltopia - Take Two
Canaltopia Take Three
Thread Jack - A herd of sheep...
Mindless chatter... Meastro <3 Olga
Canaltopia North

New Laptop - Game Reinstallation
Mrs Nursinator, Thing 1 and Thing 2
Seaport Avenue Mod
MTP Corner Shops
Brigatine Water Mod
Devonport Carausel

Marina Extensions
Chandlery
MTP Pines
White Christmas!
Loggers
Pinecrest

Pinecrest - Cernunos Bridge
Forest Park
Rivers and Waterfalls Mini Tutorial
Transparent Ploppable Water - RRP Flora (down load link)
"Brace yourself Effie.."
New Year 2009

MTP - RL New Zealand... The Kaueranga Valley
The LTP -  Lake Theme Pack
Monopoly Theme Pack
We will get back to SC eventually...
Real Life Mountain Theme Pack...  Kaueranga Valley - New Zealand
The Blue Lake - Rotorua, New Zealand

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Table of Contents - Part 2: Clevedon Valley


10K
Pegazips
Clevedon Valley - Region
Greater Auckland Region - Map Download Link
Clevedon Bay
JAN NAM, SAM and DAM...
There is absolutely nothing to be seen here...

Nup.  Definately nothing to see...  (Area 52)
Ports n Farms
Clevedon River - Mine 'n Mill
Rail n Rocks
Cernunos River
12K Screenie

STR - FAR
A couple more pics... Otago Rail Trail
D.E.R.  Junction
Nothing Extraordinary
Orere Hills
Bonus Pic

CDK - Above Sea Level!
A Frame Lodge in the Woods
Rain Tool & God Terraforming in Mayor Mode
Orere Hills - CDK with altitude
Ecamp 2009 - 13K

Return to Raurimu
Port Pegasus - RCI Board Walks
After Dinner RCI Switcheroo
Port of Auckland - RCI Boardwalks Industrial Park
Orere Hills - A little bit of everything...
Power Solutions

Orere Hills - Rail Return Loop
Clevedon Bay - A visit with SOMY
Clevedon River - NBVC Lumber Yard
MTP - RES
I'm so pretty... so pretty!
Clevedon River...  Population 5700!

Double Dam It!
Fly the Flag!
Clevedon River - MTP RES - 14K
A slight diversion back into Orere Hills to test the PPond Kit...
Clevedon River - Population 12,500!

River Neighbour Connection
PPond to Game Water Transition
Tahoe Rock Mod
Econo Airbase
Man I wish I knew how to use the lot editor...
You won't learn to use it just talking about it...
Project - MTP Small Landing Strip
The Noob's First attempts at using Lot Editor...

Onward!
Super Swamper Small Substation Freight Train Generator Thingy
A Few Minor Adjustments
Hey, why don't you give the BAT a try?
Lake Tahoe - RCI Board Walks... Above Sea Level
I (Pegasus) just plop 'em on level ground...
Lake Tahoe Hydro Scheme - Small Hydro Dam to Game Water
MTP Education Pack

15K
Breakfast TV came to our work this morning...
Bean Rock - One Year!
Power Plyon High Tension Transmission Towers
MTP Large Education
Region 14-05-09

WHAT THE BUCKET!?
Matahina Hydro Electric Dam
Bucket!  I'm Back!
Now in Alpha...
Route Canal Filling
Bonus Observaton
16K
Transition - Canal to Game Water

Sorry guys...
Flower Power
MTP Newman Inc. Hospital
Coast Guard... and other stuff by the coast...
Orere Point
Over the hills and far away... 

Upper Tahoe Twin Hydro
17K
Pine Candy
Schulmania - New Zealand State Visit
A Slight Diversion
Fukuda Stuff

Government House ~ Centre of Dogocracy
Sneeze!
Yellow Pause Thingy Remover
Clevedon Bay:  River Detailing
19K
Two Hours & Fifteen Minutes

ZOMG - Replies!
More Terrain Detailing...
Something Old - Something New
Distractions distractions
Umupuia Beach
20K
ABCVS-MTP Education Pack

21K
ABCVS-MTP Grass & Park
Transit Enabled Ford
Are fords safe? - 22K
Port of Auckland - Kinder Surprise
Miller's Ford

Now in Alpha...  PPond Fords
Millers Ford ...  PPond Ford
Culverts - Flat, Humped and Recessed!
A Splash of Colour
Messing with grassy bank canals...
Log Town... EnZed!   now in um err...  Omega...

Playing in the Sandbox
John & David
23K
Schiffenburg Ford
HunD88 - Sunflowers and Wheat Fields
Upper Tahoe Lake Resort
Eliminate the Impossible!
"You don't deserve it" - Unlock all rewards, default and custom

Away for Labour Weekend...
A couple more pics...
Poltergeist Manor
abcvs Warning!
24K
Sandbox Test Region (download link)
Map Config Files - The Secret Exposed!

Grain and Sunflowers
Photobucket Pro
Halleujah!
OMG! Replies!
Saint Paeng's - Church of the Reformed Lotterians

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Table of Contents - Part Three


Maxis Grid Fest
Lift Bridges and Draw Bridges...
25K
Upper Lake Tahoe; all four corners
Holy Scows!
Five Locks Canal

Land Meets Sea - PPond to Sea Transition
PPond Harbour to Sea Transition...  how it was done
Pine Trails ... Sans Pines
Mini Land Bridge Tutorial
There is another set!  All this freaking time!  I never knew!  No one told me!
MTP - Narrow Pine Trails

A few more pieces...
Narrow Trails - Stepping Stones
Screw Pile Developments Downunder
Cableway Island
Aspen Ski Resort - Under Construction
Aspen Ski Resort

27K
Aspen NZ ~ New Diagonal Lift Opens!
AFK
Bean Rock goes interactive!
Eleven Pipers Ski Resort - Aspen ~ New Zealand
Civic Snow Patch

Twas the night before Christmas...
Christmas Eve Dinner
Twas the day after Christmas...  o n  d i a l  u p...
Trixies 2009
Gone Camping
Image Analysis

Kiwi Summer Dinner
When we were five...
When we were five, six and seven...
Weekend Camping
800 x 600 Retro Fit Now In Progress
Topic Poster Stats
Krio's Glorious BAT Thread...  'we are not worthy'
Moderator Powers
Wot the Not!

Return to the Port of Auckland
MTP Landing Strip (download link)
MTP Crop Duster Landing Strip (download link)
MTP Medical Landing Strip (download link)

MTP School of the Air
MTP School of the Air - (b100 download link)
Clevedon Valley
MTP School of the Air - CDK version (download link)

Clevedon Valley - "Realism"
MTP Power Pine (download link)
MTP Secret Subway (download link)
Haunted Woods of the Dead (download link)
SPAM Irrigation Canal Elevation Changes
Reply 1000

PPond Float Plane Project
Port Felix
Schönheit Castle
Building an 'Isolated' Community
MTP abcvs School of the Air (download link)

Interesting work here.

[Pegasus]

Looking good...   

[abcvs]

The Bean Rock - Exchange

This is the little lighthouse lot requested by me that started this pixelated production of perfection off...
PEG Bean Rock Lighthouse - By Pegasus


...and then I discovered the wonders of Lot Editor for myself:
ABCVS - MTP Education Pack


MTP abcvs Small Landing Strip


MTP abcvs Crop Duster Landing Strip


MTP abcvs Medical Landing Strip


Haunted Woods of the Dead


Haunted Woods - Fillers


Wilderness Camp Site - Add-on


MTP abcvs School of the Air

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Bean Rock Lighthouse (1871)





Bean Rock stands on a group of rocks opposite North Head at the entrance to Waitemata harbour, Auckland.

The Waitemata harbour was surveyed in 1840 by Lt. P. Fisher aboard the HMS Herald with assistance from P. C. D. Bean the master of the vessel, after which Bean Rock is named. The local maori named the rock "Te Toka a Kapetawa" and the legend is that a chief named Tara marooned his brother-in-law there.

During the 1840's a day maker was erected on the rock, but by the 1867 gold rush a more substantial light was needed. Marine Engineer James Balfour recommended a principal harbour light be erected on Bean Rock and a screw pile light be erected on a sand spit in Ponui Passage.

Designed by engineer James Stewart, construction begun on the Bean Rock lighthouse in 1870. The work was completed in 8 months by Auckland builder William Cameron. The design was an open framework with a cottage on top. First iron foundations were driven deep into the rock then wooden poles in a hexagonal pattern were erected around a central column. Lastly, thirty feet above the water the hexagonal cottage was built. The cottage featured a wrap around verandah and the roof was corrugated iron. A fifth order lens from London was installed which flashed white, red and green to indicate the safe channels.

Hugh Brown the first keeper first lit the light in July, 1871. Mr. Brown, a former crew member of a harbour pilot boat was to stay at the lighthouse for nineteen years until his retirement in 1890 due to ill health.

The keepers families lived in Davenport and transportation to the light was by a small rowing boat.

During 1898-99 major repairs were made to the light.

Bean Rock was the first watched light to lose it's resident keeper. In 1912 the light was automated.

Island North
Province Auckland
Location Waitemata Harbour
Number K3748
Date Commissioned July, 1871
 
Automated 1912
Latitude 36° 50' South
Longitude 174° 40' East
Elevation Above Sea Level 15m
Height 15m
Character Flashes 3 times white and red every 8 seconds
Range (White) N. 14 miles, (Red) N. 11 miles
Construction White metal framework tower
 
Head Keeper From To
Hugh Brown July, 1871 1890     
James Anderson 1909 1911

http://www.newzealandlighthouses.com/bean_rock.htm














At low tide the rock that it sits on is actually visable.

If you want to search Google Earth, put Bean Rock Lighthouse in the GE search window.







BTW, there is a Bean Rock Brewing Company in Auckland....  and guess what...  they make Bean Rock Lager... 

The following shots were taken on my way to work along the scenic drive around the waterfront. There just happened to be a freighter coming down the Rangitoto Channel.  The pics were taken with my cellphone camera which unfortunately does not have a zoom.

The little speck to the left of the freighter is our new friend, Mr Bean.




This is the inner Waitemata Harbour with Rangitoto in the background.  (Volcanic scoria cone - it only arrived on the scene 500 yrs ago).   Want to stay in the channel?  Turn right before you get to Bean Rock.   


Those two smaller hills are volcanic cones as well.  We have about 60 in the Auckland region.


Vanderburg

Meanwhile a few tiles further up, the Harbour...

















Vanderburg

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A little more development in Vanderburg.





And... the next tile to the south is Nevis Landing...





Out with the CDK Lot Levelers.


This is a 'natural' beach using just the terrain...  (Artic Beach plugin)


And here is one of the Pegasus boardwalk beaches.  I do believe I have managed to keep the blankets dry Tungston!


Night beach party.


Guest services and Yacht Club.


Zoom 2

[deathtopumpkins]

Great marina in Vanderburg!  :thumbup:

I really like your terrain and the pine trees behind the farms.

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The pine trees come courtesy of cycledogg.

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The Port of Auckland, Waitemata Harbour.



I have now taken note that The Port of Auckland Container Wharf, has two sets of cranes, a set of three and a set of two...  which of course are available in the CDK series of lots.   

[Zergling08]

Nice work Abcvs an just let you know I was Hydra jus got sick of my old user name had it for 2 years.

Anyway keep up the work.

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Thanks everone for your replies... not sure what the replying ettiquite is here on Simpeg, but I do appreciate all your comments, and I look forward to sharing more nautical related stuff...  I have only been using the CDK lots for a couple of weeks now so, I am sure there is much more to learn and explore with the lots.

Funny how doing a CJ like this actually makes you take notice of the number of cranes at the port...

I will try and get some better pics of Bean Rock Lighthouse for you...  taking a camera with a zoom will probably help - although I must say that my cellphone camera does not do too badly...  those pics are the scaled down sent as a PXT to photobucket version...  if I load them directly to my PC, they are as good as a regular digital camera.

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I have recently downloaded an accurate map of the the Auckland Region.

This is the inner Waitemata Harbour.


Now someone said that I needed to leave LOTS of room for MORE CDK stuff so...  next tile over to Auckland City is North Head.

Preparing the port area.  This is an extention of the existing port in the next door tile.


This is the beginning of my first attempt to make a finger wharf.


Hmm...  needs to be wider...  the artic sand mod is useful for seeing when you have the level right.


Zoom 4, God mode leveler strength 2 and a slow steady hand... Grid lines on but for some reason they don't show up at really low sea level elevation..


Yay!  (Well not yay actually because just when I thought I had the width right I found that the 2 crane container dock and Vandy's shipping would not line up...  so there was actually a bit more faffing around before the final result.


And then finally...


I thought I would be able to extend the rail over the wharf road but unfortunately the lots are not transit enabled that way...  oh well. 

I am now extending the CDK lots further to the left...  and I will have make room for that new bulk cargo lot too...   

[Krio]

Port looks excellent 

[FrankU]

Nice work...
I could say that container ports are usually much larger. Also the container activities are usually custered together, so it might be more appropriate to build a separate container terminal and then next to it a bulk terminal..... But hey, who said this is real life? And also: there are probably a lot of small ports or industrial areas with one or two small containerdocks and a lot of other stuff messed up in one large area.
In SC4 mainly the nice looking result is important (in my opinion). And that is very OK here.

Waiting for your next update.