Photos by Peterbnz : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Peter - Yes, I had been to the tavern in Redwood, ChCh!

Cathy - I believe these are only the only redwoods in NZ. Which is a pity, as they are lovely trees.

Cheers, Tony

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Hi kartson!

This photo made in Hungarian Panoramio Meeting, from a our dear colleague. A little spring to autumn.

Thank you for your visit!

Regards:-) mihike from Hungary!

Yes, I automatically mapped it as I was mapping a bunch from the same site. Imagine my surprise when my foot showed up on GE! Crocs would really love this one - especially with the title!

Voted! Greetings from Germany. Alex:)

I need to be rotated!!!!!

some one rotate me.....

Help me!!!!!!!!!

Kari, Nice work again.

This is another form of 'self portraiture'...

Sure goes down very well!

Peter, Christchurch, NZ.

Hi Rob, Sure can't pick it as being from 3 shots - nice work, Mate!

The reason for the fence along the seaward side of the sandhills is to help stop some of the sand drifting with the prevaling Easterly wind - it picks up the sand & it goes well over the sandhills & into the homes of every house near the beach.

However, you think that the beach sand is from the Canterbury Plains?. Not so, Rob. The sand is actually made up of the rocks that have been washed down from the higher parts of the foothills and Alps & when it gets down the the sea it is already partly or almost fully eroded down to those fine grains of sand..

Of incidental value, Rob, further down the beach we have a bit of land that is called the Spit, at least to the locals. This projection of sand is actually made up entirely of sand that hs been washed down the Waimak River, but it has not been there for that long. About 400 years ago it was not there, according to a information board on the walk by Southshore, as the suburb down there is called.

This area is actually pretty low lying land, & is likely to be one of the places to be be evacuated if there is a tidal wave likely to hit the coast.

After all, much of Christchurch is pretty low lying land, as it was built on an old largely swampy area of the coast. Even my place, some 2.9km away from the beach & only about 2 metres above sealevel...

If a tsunami of 8 metres high were to hit the beach here, I'd be more than paddling my 'tootsies', I can tell you!! We'd be evacuating two thirds of Christchurch I'd reckon.

But even the recent Samoa earthquake did not give a large wave in this part of the Pacific - only about 30 to 40cm in some places, but the people flocked to the beaches. Some don't understand, do they... If it was a metre high a few kilometres of the beaches, it would be a darn sight bigger when it go to the lowtide mark.

Incidently, the area between the 'sand drift fence' & the carpark to the left of the photo had been cleared about 5 or more times since about 1997, when I came back to NZ from overseas. (anybody want 900 tonnes of lightly 'salted sand'?)

hi, brown,

thanks for your kind comment !

best regards

michael

Fantastic !!!!! Greatings from Brazil Augusto Janiscki Jr.

Oh, and the large rocks? Those are to make it less likely the pumps are hit by cars or trucks!