Canterbury, NZ: Scenery

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24 Jul

Written By Mark Eaglesfield

Photos taken from the roadside or on short walks in Canterbury (Waitaha), the central region of Waipounamu (South Island), Aotearoa New Zealand. See here for the southern part of the island and here for the northern regions and the West Coast.

Kaikōura Peninsula

fur seal

Hurunui

Molesworth Reserve and Tophouse Rd

Acheron Rd, Molesworth, Clarence River Valley.

N along Acheron Rd. Clarence River to left.

My friend Fay called this Molesworth photo particularly Middle Earth-y.

More Molesworth. Points 1205 & 1340, above Acheron cottage.

Tophouse Rd: Mt Sinclair. Fowler's Pass at left.

Tophouse Rd: Black Serpent. Coiled serpent I get, but 'black'?

Tophouse Rd: Mt Princess and Lake Tennyson.

Waiau Uwha Valley

Marble Point looking N, Waiau Uwha River.

Point 669 and Waiau River Estate.

Point 669 in a different light.

Hills around Wallace Peak. Pt 669 at right.

Waiau Ferry Bridge, access to Hanmer Springs

Riverview lookout near Waiau Ferry Bridge

Weka Pass and Gowan Hill

Central Canterbury

Only partly overlapping with the official region of Mid Canterbury.

Banks Peninsula (Horomaka)

Lyttelton Harbour from Breeze Bay walking track, Godley Head (Awaroa).

mounds of roadworks materials

hills over Long Bay

French tricolor upon the waters of French Bay, Akaroa

Castle Hill (Kura Tāwhiti) and nearby

Morning near Waimakariri-Lake Pearson

Morning near Lake Pearson-Castle Hill

Castle Hill rocks

The highway through Castle Hill, on misty mornings, is my favorite drive in Canterbury.

Lake Coleridge area and Rakaia Valley

Moon over Mt Ida.

Lake Georgina, east of Lake Coleridge.

Rakaia Valley. Big Ben Range at left.

L, Peak Hill. R, Willis Peak & Red Hill.

My aborted hike up Double Hill. Too steep.

Palmer Range from Double Hill.

Peak Hill, looking east across the Rakaia.

Peak Hill

Down the Rakaia.

Godley Peak, Palmer Range.

High point is 1958; Mt Algidus (1405) at left.

Evening over the Rakaia. Rotating upriver from moon to sunset.

Hakatere Valley and Lake Heron area

Small lake near Fagan Downs.

Dry kettle hole near Lake Heron.

Taylor & Mt Somers Ranges. (Mt Somers is further south.)

Lake Heron. Middle Hill L, Palmer Range R.

Lake Heron and Mt Sugarloaf.

Mt Sugarloaf from southern Lake Heron.

Taylor & Mt Somers Ranges.

Mt Sugarloaf, Mt Catherine, Taylor Range

Mt Potts and Upper Rangitata Valley

Black Mtn Range. Beyond, snowy Achilles & Alma Peaks.

Black Mtn Range, Mt D'Archiac, Cloudy Peak, Mt Potts

Hedgehog approaches Mt Potts, early summer.

South Canterbury

Timaru and nearby

Near Arundel. Toward Four Peaks Range (center), Mt Peel (right).

Are these succulents? Kensington, Timaru.

I balanced 5 sticks on a buried tree.

Mackenzie Basin

Ben Ohau (right), Ohau Range (left) from Ohau Downs.

Between Ben Ohau and Twizel.

Between Twizel and Omarama.

Omarama Cemetery.

Benmore Range from Lake Ohau Rd.

Benmore Range.

Highway near Benmore Range.

I believe the snowy Ohau Downs photo is the only edited photo on this page.

Waitaki Valley

This area was formerly part of North Otago

Elephant Rocks, Duntroon. I see a hippo.

Near Kurow and Waitaki Dam.

Rostriever Run (run = parcel owned by a ranch).

Mark Eaglesfield

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