Posts Tagged ‘Beach’
Elegant horse
You don’t have to be a horse lovely to see the beauty in this mare… What elegance.
Hula Tree
It was a bit like been transported to the Namibian Desert, even if it was nothing like the desert… And some nice Hawaiian music would have been nice. Oh and while we’re at it – a luau. And a nice cold beer…
The Urban Beach
When you just can’t get out of town, there’s still somewhere you can go. In the Auckland CBD, here is where you can cool your feet and chill out for a while
The New Zealand Dotterel
I’ve had a fair bit of luck photographing native birds lately. This is the New Zealand Dotterel, highly endangered with a mere 1700 birds still wading the the shoreline in the wild. They nest in the sand, leaving their eggs and young vulnerable to all the intruders that have taken up residency in this country from rats and stoats to cats and dogs and people wandering across the sand…
So a real delight to spot this beauty on Pakiri Beach on the east coast about an hour north of Auckland this past weekend. She was happy to stop and pose for pictures.
More Bits of Summer
Sorry for missing out on yesterday. As I was preparing to post, there was an enormous bang – like an explosion somewhere out on the street. The lights flashed a second and then the power went out. Pretty scary – especially for down here in the soothing nowhere-ness of Titirangi. Then the power popped back on and all was well, except the internet wasn’t working. Ah well…
Here are some more summery bits from this, the most perfect I can ever remember having in New Zealand. When it does rain – I don’t even mind…
The red billed gull is my favourite gull. Pretty nasty to be honest (aren’t they all?) But possibly the most photogenic gull in the world.
Seaweed, slippery, slimey, icky and kind of yuck… kind of awesome too…
I told you – I’m a sucker for a red billed gull – especially one prancing around with a prize in its mouth.
And this summer, we’ve just got so many vistas like this – blue and green that go on forever and ever. I wish summer would too…
Kiwi summer
Some things are eternal – at least in NZ… The bach and the caravan are key.
And of course, the dog.
And… it wouldn’t be a NZ summer without a beach!
