Another lovely day, but really cold until the sun got warmed up. Drove up the coast to Farewell Spit. Decided not to do the tourist bus thing (the only way to get right along the spit itself). Just as well I didn't - it's all sand....... sea....... sand dunes...... more sand......... more sea..... yet more sand dunes........ oh, and some black swans way, WAY out in the estuary. Not really my sort of scenery.
But there were some lovely bits of driftwood here and there and fascinating patterns of light and shade in the scrubby trees. And tomorrow? who knows!
3 comments:
I saw a harpist busking in High Town today and thought of you. I am enjoying reading your travelog and the photographs help to share your experiences. What wonderful people you are meeting! Looking forward to your next episode. I have taken to looking at a map to track your journey. Many years ago I prepared to join an expedition to South Island to search for the apparently extinct Kakapo bird. Like the bird it didn't get off the ground!
Best wishes, Ian
Kakopo rang a bell!! i am doing an art class here in uk.the tutor is Angela Gladwell - she has a website google it - and she has drawn/painted lots of botanical/mammal/bird subjects from museums.incl.uk Nat.Hist.Museum and had her paintings published in their publications. These includ a superb painting of the kakopo - theres also a nz website all about them.
janherbie
...........by the way it isnt yet extinct as concerned people in nz are making great efforts to keep it going.
janherbie
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