Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Kaikoura 3

Few minutes come back in the past


Kaikoura 2

Walking along the beach

Mix of earth, sea and sky

Cliffs

A swimming

Kaikoura 1

Relaxing on the beach

alone

Or nearly alone...

Abel Tasman National Parc 2

Cicada

Making noise!

falls

Gull's island

Tiki

Abel Tasman National Parc

I spent one day in Abel Tasman. One day is too short. The best thing is to spend few days, camping on the beach, swimming in the sea, under a warm sunny sky...
For me, it was a cloudy day! - Aotearoa, the Maori name for New Zealand means "big white cloud". Common sense! ;) - So I didn't see the golden beach with blue sea but grey beach on grey sea... but I can imagine! And the site is still AWESOME!


Mirror

A strange unhabitant

Beach, sea, mountains, clouds

Nelson

Low tide

Penguins!

Nelson center 
The local ferry! :)

Earthquake in Christchurch 2


The earthquake destroyed all the historical center, the city heart. 
I didn’t take photo of the mess and prefer to add these 2 photo !
Some people left the town. Other are still here, re-building. Can you imagine if your own house, your familly house, falls and becomes ash and no-one can help you. What will you do ?
Leave and forget ?
Or stay and re-build but remember ? And taking the risk this disaster happens again ?

Personnally, I think I would leave the place and forget… If everybody leaves Christchurch, it will become a ghost city. If you like your city, it’s not what you want.

Some people are re-building. Temporary shop are in coloured boat container and life continues.
These people are very brave and have a lot of energy.