Had a little bit of rain last weekend. That's our tourist rail under the water there...
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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Wow does that happen often?
And is the rail just an old railway line or do you use it for something?
Over the rails maybe once every 2-3 years. There's a dual 1.2m diameter culvert there on the left (where that white water is) for what is usually a tiny stream. But sometimes they just can't cope.
Yes, it's a functional narrow gauge rail that we use to carry passengers to/from the caves and also just as a standalone tourist railway.
That's really cool, I bet it makes for an awesome experience. I'm keen to come try one day, as soon as I work out what else there is to do in Westport 😀
Haha, there's some fantastic mountain biking, lots of amazing walks (day and multi-day), some good self-drive history tours (old coal and gold mines etc), horse treks, white water rafting, surf schools and more.
How does someone get from Wellington to Westport without an 8 hour drive? 🫤
3h on the ferry then 4h on the road ;) (technically only a 4h drive!) Or fly with SoundsAir
Ah, my quick google mapping must have included the ferry. 4h isn't quite as bad. A day or two in Nelson on the way could work too (we know someone there).
The next issue is that after the Christmas break I'll have about 1 day of annual leave left. Can you solve that problem? 😆
Haha, sadly, no.
That does look like a good time!
Was it cold? Somehow your photo looks incredibly wet but not freezing.
No, not cold. Just bone drenching wet!
Last night was my work do. I don't normally drink but had a few cocktails. This is a midori sour, which came in a glass so big it dwarfed the pints next to it.
I don't drink either but damn that looks good!
It was much easier to drink than I expected and if it hadn't been so huge I probably would have putting them away.
Here's a shot of a kererū I saw in a tree a couple of months back. The photo isn't the best but I thought it was a neat encounter.
The photo isn’t the best but
But that's the whole point of a snapshot challenge - sharing the moment without worrying about technical bits and pieces. I like this, it looks like they're deliberately posing for you.
I made this sauce today!
Nice! What kind of sauce?
I'm also having trouble with the scale. Is it a giant wooden spoon or a tiny pot?
Tee hee, now I can't unsee it as a tiny sauce in that picture, but the wooden spoon is a little bigger than the width of my hand. It's a pasta sauce with celery in it.
Cooking is kind of a big accomplishment for me these days, but it's nice to get back to a sense of eating like "me". I don't think most of us notice in everyday life but food is part of identity.
@shartedchocolate@lemmy.world let's see those pics!
Here's one of Arthur's pass!
Damn! That's some scenery
Thank you!
I love this, I'd seriously consider buying this as a print.
Thank you!
And one from around Lake Tekapo
This one feels ominous to me for some reason. Like a mountain in Mordor or something!
Lil spooky, it was in Queenstown
Is there some way to mesh this with pixelfed?
My pictures for here are on pixelfed but I just use ! To embed them.
Pohutukawa I posted the other day ended up getting shared by a few strangers on mastodon, I was pretty chuffed.
You can hotlink pixelfed images, but I don't think there's any fancy embedding. Some apps may do it but I'm not sure which if any.
Feel free to link to photos on pixelfed, though, I don't see any harm in that.
We went to the Auckland botanic gardens for a few hours on Saturday. There was an ultra marathon going in the forest trail in the back. Lots of nice flowers out.
Beautiful! Do they have much of a smell? I've never seen real pohutukawa, just the local bottlebrush.
Not that I could smell. I love the bottle brushes, too! That's another really cool tree. They are also blooming everywhere right now.