Three Oamaru sisters and their children won the best-dressed family prize, Bronwyn (left) and Amelia (3) Claridge, Jeannie White, Steph White
and Pippa Robson (1), all from Oamaru.
David Clarkson, a Steampunk enthusiast from Christchurch, on safari for the celebrations yesterday using a mixture of old and new photographic technology.
Diana Wheatley (from left), Anne Clarkson, Nixx and Matt Doms, all from Christchurch, on the Cafe Promenade in Thames St.
Oamaru Victorian Heritage committee chairman Kevin Malcolm at the official opening and welcome yesterday by Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher for the 2014 celebrations.
With the theme of transport for this year's heritage celebrations, Colin (left) and Judy Barnes, the only two members of the Great British Explorers' Club, brought their camel transport ''Humpfree'' along with them from their home in Haumoana, Hawkes Bay.
Steam engines and trucks gather with people for a big photo opportunity outside the Oamaru Opera House after the Victorian Promenade along Thames St yesterday morning.
winners of the best dressed couple in the Victorian Promenade were Gregory Henwood, from Christchurch, and Cheryl Inwood, from Dunedin.
Marshall Duff, from Rangiora, won the best dressed male.
Rae McLeod, from Oamaru, with her mountain-climbing outfit won the prize for best-dressed woman.
Sandra (left) and Diane Brough, both from Invercargill, with their spread for the best-dressed picnic table.
Preparing for afternoon tea are (from left) Lyn Gray, Jenny Lynch-Blosse, Sara Elliott, Ron Daw and Marise Martin.
Viv ( from left) and Ida Dennis and Jill Thyne, all from Christchurch, with their picnic using family 1911 silver, 1890 tea set and stand.
Grace Frater (14, left) and Madelin Duncan, both from Christchurch, watch the croquet competition.
Lydia Frater (10) plays a shot with (from left), Zeke (12), Jessica (18) Frater and Tim Marshall, all from Christchurch.
Oamaru ''maids'' (from left) Bronwen Ardouin (14), Sally Lory (14) and Lauryn Stewart (13) serve Susan Peach, from North Canterbury, and Lisa Frater (right) from Christchurch, at the garden party.
Gail Dryland and pilot Peter Clulow, of Hamilton, test their burner in the pre-sunrise gloom.
Peter King, from East Taratahi, stands inside his lightweight two-person Boland balloon as it is inflated at Awamoa Park, Oamaru, yesterday morning.
Peter Amyes.
Spectators watch as colourful balloons are inflated in Oamaru's Awamoa Park yesterday morning during the annual Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations.
Peter King.
Howard Watson, of Wellington, looks down from the basket below his balloon.
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