View to Island in the Sun
After what has been a not so bad, but long feeling winter, I think Summer is on the way!
The Resort – Phi Phi
Landing at the resort, the view was stunning. Clear aqua ocean, white sand, palm trees. We were warmly greeted, and as with all the other places we stayed, welcomed with a cool sweet beverage. Being at the flash end of the holiday, we took on an upgrading offer and temporarily made the beach front bungalow our home for the next four nights.
More tomorrow!
View of the Sea
Sunday been, a mate and I headed over to Piha on Auckland’s West Coast for some early morning shooting. The night before had seen a particularly heavy thunder storm, but welcomed the morning with a clear sky.
Oddly, the tide always seems to be more out than in when I head with camera to Piha. This day was no different.
Walking down the south side of the beach, I caught todays image of my mate looking out to the surf, towards the Tasman Sea.
On a very different topic, this week I have been participating in ‘Live Below the Line’ challenge. A worldwide awareness program, Live Below the Line challenges individuals to live off $2.25 NZD (~$1.50USD/1Pound)per day for all their meals. I cant accept food donations, or use food from the garden without offsetting the cost. Its proving to be challenging and eye opening. Breakfast porridge is fine, but by evening my energy levels have been better! About 1.2 Billion people live on this amount every day, covering not only their food, but any other bits and pieces needing money.
I’d welcome any support, but equally, encourage others to get involved!
Glide Time
Glide time – Just the norm for some.
Sundown…again
Same venue as yesterday – just from a different spot.
Last Hour of Light
“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
New Zealands Milford Sound
One more from my photo trip down memory lane of the South Island holiday. I mentioned yesterday about the amazing enormity of the mountains. Often rising up above the flat land, it confronts you face on.
Todays shot, taken in Milford Sound is another location when you can get up close to this once glacier formed landscape. Sitting on the flat ocean, looking up, the ranges almost disappear from sight.
Currently Milford Sound is part of a controversial debate whether to bipass the traditional road track (up to a 12 hour return journey from Queenstown) down to a two hour one way by train. This will however mean cutting into our national park – protected land. Some of the tourist stop towns may loose out, and some of the more quiet and beautiful places, Glenorchy, may become a busy traffic bipass. No argument the bus journey is a long one, but its also a beautiful one, and critical to some of the small stops. Then again, in this changing climate of tourism, many of those who travel to New Zealand to see the sights dont always want to bother about the small bits, and generally under estimate the real time it can take to take in our little country.
Shot on the Ricoh GRD IV, resized and bordered in Gimp
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