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Saturday 19th March 2011 at noon SLT – meet under the Grignano Arch and let’s quack in the 7th! Everyone and anyone welcome to join us!
Tag Archives: Nova Albion
Nova Albion’s 6th Anniversary Parade
It’s that time of year again – paradin’ time! First is Nova Albion’s celebrations for its founding in March 2004 and this year the event was planned by the always energetic LisaHot Juran (who also arranged a stage & 3 hours of live music after the event!).
Osprey wanted to recreate the history 1887 Attack of the Ducks and so lots of us dressed as ducks and took to the streets with budgies, orcs, sword-maidens, Babbage urchins, Bay City kids to name but a few!
We all fought through fierce lag storms that blocked loads of folks out and even bent time itself so sims appeared to wink out of existence…
By the time we reached the end, we could see Salazar had nearly rebuilt the famous arch laid low by a grid quake last year…
Before the music kicked in (and I crashed out for an hour – bloody SL!) we had the street naming ceremony where the road outside Pituca Fairchang’s park & windmill was named after her late SL & RL partner, Garth. His passing is still felt by many residents and for me it was lovely to meet Pituca for the first time.
Next is the Bay City Parade and then maybe I can persuade the Steelhead Town Council to hold one, eh? 
p.s. Mark your diaries now – March 2011 for the 7th Nova Albion Anniversary Parade – come along and join in the fun!
Rebuilding the Nova Albion Arch
Waaaaay back last year a grid-quake caused the collapse of the long-standing arch in the Grignano quarter of Nova Albion city…
Well recently Salazar hired a (frankly bloody enormous) crane and started repairing it in time for the city’s 6th anniversary parade and I just had to go and take a look.
Like I said, one bloody big crane!
A SteelCobra over Sansara
Whilst I was over in Bay City admiring the work going on at the site of the planned fairground, I noticed a helicopter passing overhead. A quick check revealed the pilot’s name to be one I recognised – SteelCobra Calamari, Emporer of Steeltopia & friend of Steelhead. A quick radio call and he put his whirlybird down right next to me with practiced ease…
It seemed he was on official SCSE, Steeltopia Consortium of Scientific Endeavors, business and was exploring the oldest part of the grid (and my old stamping ground) North West Sansara! He ofered me a lift and how could I say no?
In no time at all we were soaring over some very familiar landmarks (well, familiar to me and readers of this blog – they were pretty new to the SCSE!). We followed Route 66 past the old Bay City asslyum and into Nova Albion…
Where we passed over Salazar’s bridge in Nova Albion…
Over the ever-busy Ahern welcome area…
And into Oak Grove which is next to my old home of Murray 
Where I had to bail out as RL was calling – but a huge thanks to SteelCobra for both the lift and the chance to bore someone new about the history of SL 
The Malted Bunneh!
My mate Enjah has been a busy bee of late – she’s been making more and more films and her latest is a real doozie! Tiny noir reaches new hieghts with her wonderful film “The Malted Bunneh”, a tale of greed, lust, deception and murder in Nova Albion city!
And like any good filmmaker, she’s even added a blooper track!
p.s. Is it just me, or is Officer Hawkins the best looking one in the whole film?
Bay City’s Fairground Breaks Ground!
A recent call from Marianne McCann sent me dashing over to North Channel, the region between Nova Albion & Bay City to see the latest exciting development in Bay City’s exciting short life – following a meeting of the Bay City Alliance, Michael Linden was hard at work on raising an island to house a fairground! I TPed over and found the access route shut off…
Pressing ahead I could clearly see just how hard Michael was working – he had a barge set up and the Alliance’s plans set out so he knew exactly where to dredge and where to drop.
I had to leave but when I came back a few days later, the land mass was all but finished! Next stop, add the rides!
(That’s the ‘burbs of Shermville at the top and the Grignano region of Nova Albion to the right)
I can’t wait to see how these plans turn out!
Nova Albion 6th Anniversary Parade – Planning Begins!
It’s that time of year again – March is the anniversary of Nova Albion’s opening after Magellan found it on behalf of the Lab and February is the time the residents & friends of the city get together to plan the parade to commemorate this historic event.
LisaHot Juran, Nova Albion fan extraordinaire, called together a meeting to discuss the time, place and plans for 2010′s sixth anniversary and plenty of people came to help…
The ever busy Osprey laid out plans for routes as well as displayed the posters for the parade & the renactment of the historic invasion of ducks…
Finally, LJ rezzed up the new street signs she’s been working on to seek comments – I love ‘em! Really American and clear and stylish!
I’ll be posting more about the parade as it draws near, but for now pencil Saturday March 20th 2pm SLT into your diaries because you are all welcome to join in the fun! Come and walk, run, ride or fly with us! Why not grab a free float base from the vendors in the city and build your own float to join the parade
You can see pictures from the last two parades here and here and read more posts about Nova Albion here.
Marianne’s Corner of Miramare
Marianne McCann is a busy lass! I’m pretty sure that when you read this she’ll either be at camp or just on her way back and no doubt she’ll have at least three projects ready to roll. One of the latest she has completed is her brilliant information centre in Nova Albion – I took Frank out for a stroll to have a looksee…
In a really small space and with less prims than some people have in a single piece of furniture she’s a built a beautifully designed (and fun!) welcome and info area for people to find out more about Nova Albion, Bay City, The Tri-City Area and Sansara. Add a crazy Sno-Kone robot and you have the perfect place for newbies (and oldbies!) to find out more about the oldest land in SL Go and see it here.
Don’t forget to get your sno-kone… but don’t try and sit on the robot
Have a click around and you might just get a free tee
Cheers for the great resource Mari!
The Broken Arch of Nova Albion
A few months ago I heard disturbing rumours that the iconic archway of Nova Albion in Grignano, shown in its full glory in the picture above, had collapsed. I made a trip over and was saddned to find that the beautiful span created and gifted to the city by Lordfly Didgeridoo in 2005 in pieces strewn across the bay beneath them…
How had this happened? And how can we fix it? I’ll ask around and let you know what I find out…
Armord to leave Nova Albion!
What a shock – I heard from LisaHot Juran & Marianne McCann that Marcos Fonzarelli is selling up in Miramare and there is a very real chance that the amazing and iconic ARMORD tower in the city will soon be gone 
It’s a sad day for Nova Albion city – get along there now and see one of the oldest landmarks before it’s gone forever.
