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Exploring with Mark
New Zealand
Приєднався 10 бер 2015
Welcome, My main aim is to document the past and keep a digital preservation of the places that may never be seen again. At the end of the day I just like an Adventure and hope at the same time you enjoy my videos! If you enjoy what you see, please consider subscribing to the channel as this helps me out immensely. NEVER STOP EXPLORING!!
**DISCLAIMER**
I purely go to these places to take photos and film. I do not force entry into any locations I visit and explore and do not commit any offenses involved in any criminal activity such as burglary, damage, break in etc... Urbex can be a dangerous hobby so safety and awareness are always very important. “Take only photos, leave only footprints”
**DISCLAIMER**
I purely go to these places to take photos and film. I do not force entry into any locations I visit and explore and do not commit any offenses involved in any criminal activity such as burglary, damage, break in etc... Urbex can be a dangerous hobby so safety and awareness are always very important. “Take only photos, leave only footprints”
Arthurs Pass
Exploring Arthurs Pass.
(Some clips from around Arthurs Pass.
A visit to Arthur's Pass is well worth the winding mountain drive, and you'll find plenty of natural attractions to explore on the way, including waterfalls, secluded caves and fascinating rock formations.
Arthur's Pass, previously called Camping Flat then Bealey Flats, and for some time officially Arthurs Pass, is a township in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, located in the Selwyn district. It is a popular base for exploring Arthur's Pass National Park.)
(Some clips from around Arthurs Pass.
A visit to Arthur's Pass is well worth the winding mountain drive, and you'll find plenty of natural attractions to explore on the way, including waterfalls, secluded caves and fascinating rock formations.
Arthur's Pass, previously called Camping Flat then Bealey Flats, and for some time officially Arthurs Pass, is a township in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, located in the Selwyn district. It is a popular base for exploring Arthur's Pass National Park.)
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Cass Bay Naval Armament Depot, Asbestos Removal
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Exploring Cass Bay Naval Armament Depot, Asbestos Removal. Walk track from Summit Road to Cass Bay Naval Armament Depot: ua-cam.com/video/jlVv4RaG894/v-deo.htmlsi=SQfc6aei5f5Iui3U 1st time going: ua-cam.com/video/neE4K6Saigk/v-deo.html (Wasn't totally open to the public when I did this video, Open to the public April 2023 and I went back for another look. Ten brick and concrete magazines, an am...
Shag Point Boulders
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Exploring (Shag Point/Matakaea has a rich history, from early Ngai Tahu settlement to historic coalmining. The area has diverse marine life. It has interesting flora, is great for wildlife viewing, and is geologically fascinating. Matakaea is jointly managed by DOC and Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu. Matakaea has Topuni status. The mana (authority) and rangatiratanga (chieftainship) of Ngai Tahu over t...
Water Drainage Tunnel
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Exploring Water Drainage Tunnel. (Found this tunnel when exploring a area for something else so had to go back another day and explore it. End to end took about 30mins and at the end I was on my tummy to crawl out twisting around a rock, flax bush and dodging stinging nettle that ended up getting me on the knee but not badly. Looking on maps its about 140m long and is all down hill with 1 other...
Early 1900’s Building In Morven With Vehicles
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Exploring Early 1900’s Building In Morven With Vehicles. (Seen photos of this building online with some of the vehicles so had to go check it out for myself. Morven is a small rural settlement approximately 14km southeast of the town of Waimate, in South Canterbury, New Zealand. After the subdivision of the Waikākahi Estate it became a service centre for the new settlers. Morven is also home to...
Temple Basin Ski Area, Page Memorial Shelter
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Exploring Temple Basin Ski Area, Page Memorial Shelter. (Started off viewing the goods lift 800m up the road from Temple Basin car park. Had a couple of views of Temple Basin walk track. 1.13km up the track you will come to the bench seat and a side track out the a spot for a better view of Twin Creek Falls. When you get to Temple Basin Ski Area go to the Lockwood Shelter and have a rest inside...
9G-DAN, Full Metal Jacket Westland Wessex Mk60 Series 1
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Exploring 9G-DAN, Full Metal Jacket Westland Wessex Mk60 Series 1. (After finding out about ZK-IDL and getting a tour of it and its parts I ended up finding out about 2 more Westland Wessex helicopter from Dave Paul and there location so I had to go have a look at them.After some research online I found out about NZ Civil Aircraft blog that had history and photos of them. I then got in contact ...
Seacliff Asylum Ruins at Truby King Reserve
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Exploring Seacliff Asylum Ruins at Truby King Reserve. (Seacliff Lunatic Asylum (often Seacliff Asylum, later Seacliff Mental Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital in Seacliff, New Zealand. When built in the late 19th century, it was the largest building in the country, noted for its scale and extravagant architecture. It became infamous for construction faults resulting in partial collapse, as ...
McLean Falls
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Exploring McLean Falls. (The McLean Falls on the Tautuku River in Catlins Forest Park descend a number of steep drop offs and terraces, with the very top of the waterfall, where it meets its first waterpool being 22-metres. It then descends for many more metres over a series of terraces. The McLean Falls are often described as the most spectacular in the region. However, its sister waterfall Pu...
ZK-IDL, Full Metal Jacket Westland Wessex Mk60 Series 1
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Exploring ZK-IDL, Full Metal Jacket Westland Wessex Mk60 Series 1. (After finding out about this helicopter and its location I had to go have a look at it. Ended up spending 4 hours at Ferrymead Heritage Park looking around but 30 mins of that was just at the ZK-IDL around the back of the workshop. After some research online I found out about NZ Civil Aircraft blog that had history and photos o...
Trotters Gorge Scenic Reserve
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Exploring Trotters Gorge Scenic Reserve. (Nice walk track and some cool small caves to explore but the highlight for me was climbing to the top of the rocks to get a 360 view of the area. I did the Trotters Cave Walk and the Trotters Gorge Track. Trotters Gorge is a locality in the Otago region, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 12 kilometres to the north of Palmerston, inland f...
Port Levy Saddle, Windswept Totara Forest
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Port Levy Saddle, Windswept Totara Forest
Horomaka Island, Port Levy Hut Has Been Removed
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Horomaka Island, Port Levy Hut Has Been Removed
Sumner Scarborough Clock Tower, Skull Face
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Sumner Scarborough Clock Tower, Skull Face
Godley Head Gun Battery & Campsite Reopened
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Godley Head Gun Battery & Campsite Reopened
Whitewash Reserve, Cliff Edge Explore
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Whitewash Reserve, Cliff Edge Explore
Tiromoana Bush Walk, Te Ara Matairangi
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Tiromoana Bush Walk, Te Ara Matairangi
Christchurch’s New Stadium Te Kaha Part 6
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Christchurch’s New Stadium Te Kaha Part 6
Well spotted. I had no idea they were there. I must stop for a look if I happen to be passing at low tide.
Worth a look if in the area.
An amazing find, it`s hard to believe that all this is still as is.
Yeah very cool spot and out off the main road.
I think I visited there about 3 years ago and nothing has changed! Good job documenting them.
Yeah after seeing photos of the place on Facebook I had to go check it out. Very cool location.
Nice Mark, I love the videos. Keep them coming. Be good to do an exploration with you sometime.
Thanks. :) Just watched your drone video of New Brighton. Nice work.
@ExploringwithMark Cheers Mark , I'm not Geoff Mackley, but give it a shot.
@@jcmsir Haha yeah aye he drones a lot of places.
Thank you for your service ZK-IDL 🫡
Yeah so cool to see this in NZ.
What an awesome discovery Mark, right here in our own backyard! I too am a huge fan of Full Metal Jacket so this video is definitely appreciated 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Will have another Westland Wessex video out some stage. Just got to finish editing it.
What did the security do/say to you?
@@jontyleary4699 just ask what I was doing, told them just taken photos and videos. Then told me I shouldn't be in here because it's dangerous and that they are having problems with people getting in. He also let slip that the 2 story building I didn't go in has alarms. They seen me on camera walking around outside and also another person was there that I didn't know about at the same time. Told me not to come back as if I did they can trespass you and fine $220. The place is a lot worse now and there are some shipping containers in the front yard.
I get told about that place all the time I need to go have a look
Worth a look if you are in the area.
I fear soon all we will have of some of these historical sites are your videos, some photos, and tales
@@tylerjones6862 Yeah say they be gone very soon.
Where is this?
Hampden, a small town in North Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
I used to take school groups on their outdoor adventure camps at Tautuku Outdoor Adventure Centre. There used to be a track up to the top of the falls, and one year a few of us went up there and abseiled down in the waterfall. Nice place, loved it down there!
Cathedral Caves is 1 of 2 locations I still need to check out and just looked it up and looks like its Temporarily closed. Jack's Blowhole is the other.
@@ExploringwithMark Jack's blowhole at Jacks Bay is still accessible as far as I know, but Cathedral Caves have been closed for years by local Tangata whenua over disputed access across Maori land from what I understand. If you had a boat you could launch from Tautuku peninsula and head around. They can't stop access from the water. You just need a 4 x 4 to get your boat to the peninsula.
@@mirandahotspring4019 is very strange google says closed but there sites says open. lol www.cathedralcaves.co.nz/
I would be very interested to know where this is
Timaru
What happened to your cracroft cavern video
Had to take some videos down for now because of legal stuff.
Thanks for the video! I have loved this type of helicopter since I was a little kid. A couple of years ago, I got to watch one being used in lieu of a crane, on a construction site. Great experience to see one fly in prrson!
Thanks. Will have 2 more videos out some stage of another 2 of them. Got to go inside and sit in one also. :)
I gotta check that out someday damn!
Yeah dude worth a look. Also is another 2 out Rangiora and 1 of them is also from the movie.
Was that one the one they had outside liquorland on barbados st ages ago?
Yes it is.
I wonder what it’s like in the hospitals of the 1800’s I bet it looked different inside
Yeah. :)
Yeah its a nice walk. We did the cave walk on the way back from Dunedin to Christchurch. Didn't have time for the track to the bluffs on that visit unfortunately. That inland road from Palmerston is a nice drive also.
Nice one yeah is a nice area.
Love the vid, can really feel Mister Omega's Presence
Thanks. I loved this place.
Brooo those trees are buzzy as!
Yeah man is a cool spot.
Thanks for going where I no longer could
Lovely spot indeed. But please film and render at only 60fps. p30 is basically a herky-jerky flashing slideshow. High resolution means nothing, unless it's matched with a proper framerate of p60. But they don't tell you that at the place you buy your camera.
Thanks will test it out.
Between Reefton and Christchurch?
@@thebigworldofnz na this was on way to Nelson.
Strange! As if it were burnt elsewhere then left in a parking lot? Buzzy as
Oh aye yeah true. No parts on the ground and no burn marks on the ground.
That's a good idea, add in the sound of a helicopter so people won't know you were flying your drone over there without permission.
What drone it was helicopter. :)
I don't understand why they would do that
Was told it was unsafe. But sucks and they should build a new one on there. Would be a cool spot to stay the night.
@ExploringwithMark it survived how may years in port levy, seems safe to me lol
I so need my foot to get better really want to go through those tunnels, but I can't do the walk down to them lol
@@UrbexCcity yeah getting back up is about 8mins up hill mission.
@ExploringwithMark hopefully they don't fully block them off for atleast another couple months lol
I would drive through with high beams on lol
@@anthonysweeney382 haha. On a bike with high beams.
@@ExploringwithMark haha yeah saves reversing out
What happened to your abandoned building videos
Had to remove them for legal reasons.
What happened to your facebook or Harley videos?
Facebook I still have. Had to remove them for legal reasons.
@@ExploringwithMark Oh gotcha did you get rid of people on facebook for legal reasons?
@@LiamCollins1. Yeah I giving up on abandoned places now. Have left the Facebook abandoned groups and removed a couple of people just to stay away from anyone that's into that type of thing. Mainly using Facebook account for family and friends now.
@@ExploringwithMark Fair enough the police defintely doubling down on urbex nowadays
Yup your a bit of a artist the way you film bro fantstic
Thanks. Hopeing to get to some of the Dunedin ones soon.
Love it nice work i like going up there its a great place lots to see
It sure is. Plan to get back up there again some stage
Can't wait to go back here and check it out properly
Worth going again. I plan to go out again some time.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this with us ❤
My pleasure 😊
I was at those batches the other day they have gotten so bad now there's hardly anything left of them
Plan to get back out this way sometime and go around the track to the cave again and the spot down the stair case.
@ExploringwithMark if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's locked I went there about 2 weeks ago. Not sure if there's another way down to it.
Cave cannot be locked as no fence. Harris Bay Cave. The one with gate in fence also haha. dam they locked it aye mmmm. sure theirs ways around that.
@ExploringwithMark the caves not, but the other one is. I didn't want to try get round the fence with the massive drop into the sea lol
But that's the fun part lol. You will only fall once. :)
Where was this?
Christchurch
@@ExploringwithMark Where in Christchurch
Riccarton, walkway on Matai Street.
@@ExploringwithMark Ohh ok. Thanks!
Good wee spot
Yes it was, be mint after a heavy rain to see the waterfalls.
Welcome Can we take some clips from your channel and show them in Arabic and mention your channel in the video and also the description box?
Flick me a link when you have your video up. :)
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Thank you. Just watched.
Thank you for this. Believe it or not, my family used to stay in those cabins for our holidays over 40 years ago. They were in better shape then.
@@danieltaft6864 oh wow that would have been a cool spot to stay.
Are these tunnel marked on a map?
Yeah just google Big Hill Tunnel
Shall we get rid of the libraries art galleries parks and swimming pools as well TTM. What a dork!
Na they are fine fore some people. Me personal don't use them apart from parks. Libraries I just search online for things.
I literlly live on mona vale which is around the corner of this place great area
Yeah Both places very nice to walk around. Have done couple time lapse at Mona Vale.
Is this the cave when your heading to sumner from town its on your righr like blink amd youll miss it or what cave am i thinking of
@@trenthogben4338 That's the one.
One of my mates got a free boxing bag from that place the no longer have it though
LOL oh aye. House is gone now. Is new houses on the land already they went up so fast.
There used to be a swing there but idk what happened to it
@@cute_lucky_foxy469 oh dam that would have been fun.
@@cute_lucky_foxy469 love your profile picture by the way. :)
@@ExploringwithMark thanks also slight question do you leave a sticker to your channal at the places you visit?
@@cute_lucky_foxy469 yip at most places but have missed some places. Normally put them where others have tagged or put stickers.
@@ExploringwithMark only reason i ask is because i found one at a 2 story house in opawa yesterday
The og tree house me and my mates went to when we skiped last perioud
@@cute_lucky_foxy469 haha crackup.
The old kfc from linwood im surprised i didnt spot you when going past it
@@cute_lucky_foxy469 would have been cool. :) I went there 2 times different days.
Well thats what I would call a proper hike! Pretty waterfalls make it worth it no doubt. Great to see so many Fantails.
Was a very nice walk but had some very muddy parts. Always love to see fantails.
Terowongan itu butuh penerangan😅
I Have more tunnel videos coming soon. Most of these tunnels are old Railway ones converted into walking and cycling tracks.
Where is it now?
Kaiapoi, NZ
Nice. Get the thing under cover, please!
Wish they would. when its on 1 of 3 in NZ it should be under cover.