This is a post showcasing the stuff we have about the place on the way to and from nowhere special. The places we drive past, or near, every day. The scenery that makes up the rest of New Zealand somewhere other than the places you see all the time in tourist brochures. All of the photos here were taken within an hour of my house though. So I didn’t even need to go far to take them.
This is a road to work if you live round here. A commute if you likeA woolshed, we have lots of them in New Zealand. not so many with graffiti on the side though.You see this sort of thing on your way to work, not every day, but sometimes. You see the cows every day of course but the amazing rays less often.Looking north in the evening from our front lawn. So not quite an hour from my house.Steam train passing my house, out there.Jerusalem on the Wanganui River Road. Or Whanganui River Road. I believe the h is optional.A waterfall beside the Turakina Valley Road. Where? Yes, exactly, but it’s right there, beside the road.The Rata Church which is beside the Marae, or behind it depending on where you stand. I like the angel. She looks like a celestial umpire giving someone out.Mt Ruapehu at 8:30am. I know this gets in tourist brochures but not this shot and it is an hour from my house.A woolshed. I like a woolshed.I stood inside a cave and looked out.This is inside a glow worm cave most people are unaware of. It’s also about an hour from my house.Right inside the cave. Apparently the glow worms come out at night, inside the cave. I know right?Who doesn’t like a photo of an old derelict shed in the middle of nowhere?I’m not normally a fan of people leaving wrecks lying about the place but this scene works for me as a photograph. Like a graveyard in the middle of nowhere for machinery and stuff.The Makohine Viaduct. For a while it was the tallest viaduct in New Zealand at 73 metres high and 228 metres long. It’s no longer the highest viaduct in New Zealand but it is still high.
So, I hope you like the photos, this is the Southern Central North Island of New Zealand, randomly photographed here and there.
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