Caloundra and environs pics

Just back from a happy two weeks on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia

Here are a few pics - mostly of interesting rocks and wrecks!

Tasman Bay on the way north

Oh yes, on our way north Anne and I had five very pleasant nights at Little Kaiterteri when I conducted the wedding of Anna & Andrew. Early one morning I headed around the hillside walkway and captured these images... Kaiterteri Beach, Nelson

Trig Station at Little Kaiterteri overlooking Tasman Bay

Pohutukawa in flower

The view from our apartment of Little Kaiterteri, Tasman Bay
& the distant Marlborough Sounds

East Cape 4

Looking back towards East Cape

Father & Son on Tokomaru Bay wharf

Man on horse in Tolaga Bay

East Cape 3

We camped for two nights at Te Araroa Bay near the East Cape

At 6am on the day we left the light was magnificent

stream meets ocean at dawn

anne contemplates

marram grass seed (like tumbleweed)

east cape travels

These are pictures of the Raukokore Church and environs. The church is a quite magnificent landmark on a beautiful bay on the Bay of Plenty side of the Pacific Coast Highway.

a week away in Hawea

a few pics from the Hawea trip... including a tree, fern and lichen from Haast Pass, Lake Hawea looking into the western reaches, and on the way home Lake Pukaki with Mt Cook (Aoraki) looking rather splendid .

Oliver

Oliver is doing just great. The consultant gave the all clear last night. Every thing that should be working at this stage is working - he has just been taken off all moniters. He is feeding three hourly, which given that he is Sam's son, is to be expected. We are so pleased and relieved!

I shot these photos around tea time last night - the flash was irritating Oliver a bit so I attempted some shots in the low light - I'm quite pleased with the result. The neo natal intensive unit is a remarkably tranquil place (when there isn't a crisis) and these photos seem to have picked up the mood.

Edmund Anscombe at Otago University

Photos by Mart the Rev

As mentioned earlier in a blog, my great grandmother's brother was an architect. One of this masterpieces was the archway at the University of Otago where I earned degrees in Arts & Theology in the 1980's.

Aerial view of Golden Bay (I didn't take it!)

Golden Bay images

I mentioned in another blog that I'd been to Golden Bay at the top of the South Island... here are two of my photos... Golden Bay Triptych & Golden Bay Sunset

South Island Snow from up very high

Look at that! We have had quite a week of it down south, but not in Dunedin on the right down low, green, clean and cold!