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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Was it cold? Somehow your photo looks incredibly wet but not freezing.
No, not cold. Just bone drenching wet!
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!
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.
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.
@[email protected] 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
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.
This was of a hydrangea