I've often been asked to show more of the countryside of this beautiful country. Like my brother, CJ, when I am lucky enough to be a passenger rather than the driver (which is my usual role) I continually click away with the camera in the hope that I'll get the occasional, or hopefully more frequent, useable photo. Here's some to show the journey home on Tuesday. The countryside in New Zealand is immensely varied from Alpine glaciers, fiords, live volcanos and subtropical forests to beaches stretching for 50 miles or more. It's a wonderful and spectacular place. These photos represent one tiny part of that rich variety.
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I see what you mean about the varied landscape. When I see a collection of photos like this from NZ I often get the feeling that some look strangely familiar - while others just look strangely strange! Meaning than sometimes it reminds me a little bit of certain parts of Sweden, or Britain, while other views look entirely different. Thanks for the tour!
ReplyDeleteOne day I'll post some photos of the Southern Alps and Fiordland and ...well the list is endless.
DeleteOne certainly can't blame all those film makers to have chosen NZ as their setting.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is just a tiny selection from one journey.
DeleteYou always used to wonder how I got decent photos from a moving car. You've obviously found out - a great series, thank you, GB.
ReplyDeletePoint and shoot and throw the bad ones away. Sounds easy.
DeleteAh! Such a familiar road for me as I have spent the last 28 years traveling it to visit my parents and sister, from my new home(s). But clever you to catch the Mohaka River from the bridge!
ReplyDeleteThere was work being done on the Mohaka Bridge and so we had to slow right down and stop at one point. As you know it's usually impossible to stop within kilometres of the bridge and walking over it is a very dangerous occupation given the narrowness and heavy lorries using it. I've never managed a photo before.
DeleteGreat scenery and GOOD roads! You really have mastered that shooting from a moving vehicle.
ReplyDeleteI got lots of practice in Northland. I could put it down to the smooth driver!
Deletesuperb scenery and superb photographer!
ReplyDeleteThe first was not my doing but you are too kind about the second.
DeleteI also have travelled this road many times,the Titiokura Saddle and the road near Te Pohue are so familiar, a friend of mine has the deer farm at Te Pohue that you pass on the way home.
ReplyDeleteThe Esk Valley as you get closer to Napier is also very pretty don't you think GB?
Driving the Saddle in my MX5 on a beautiful day with the lid down is my idea of a heaven. I know the farm you referred to. The Esk Valley is beautiful. I've never blogged on it I don't think. Note made. It took a few minutes for my brain to kick in then I remembered that you were born or lived in Taradale in your youth and have commented before when I've mentioned Puketapu and the river. Good to see you back.
Deletewow, a beautiful landscape...
ReplyDeletei wanna live in NZ someday, i love gardening, and NZ is a fertile land
It certainly is a very fertile land. Good luck with your aspirations.
DeleteI'm an avid reader of your blogs GB and you're correct, I actually lived in the property across the road from the school, which my cousin and her family currently own.
ReplyDeleteHaving left HB 36 years ago your blog is my link back there.