Holiday pics

Hard to imagine it's been a month since I've added a post.

My excuse - I've been on holidays. To prove it here are some of my shots.

Went to Troubridge Island and stayed in the lighthouse keepers cottages below.

It was a lighthouse odyssey, we visited a dozen lighthouses, including the unusally coloured orange lighthouse at Cape Banks, site of the Admella tragedy,

and the atomspheric Point Malcolm (all very Wuthering Heights)

We saw some wonderful scenes including these creatures - Homer the NZ fur seal, and these Little Penguin chicks.

There was the history element - staying in the Inneston ghost town where they mined gypsum.

A number of shipwrecks, including this one of the Ethel hence the lighthouses.

And finally there was even an abandoned bridge or two.

It ticked all the boxes!

Samoan tsunami

My thoughts are with the Samoans trying to cope with the aftermath of the tsunami.


Here is my photo of a beach wedding on the beach at Lalomanu on the south coast of Western Samoa, taken in 2005. Behind my left shoulder are a row of fales with an uninterupted view of the beach and water.


Now the 'after' shot taken by Associated Press almost the same position, but from up on the road.

Listening to one of the survivors on the radio this morning, he related how the wave had come up to within inches of the ceiling of his room at Coconuts. Below is my photo from our room at Coconuts, so the water would have inundated this view and reached to the lattice roof at the top of the photo.


Below is a photo from the SMH of Sinalei the neighbouring resort looking towards Coconuts halfway down the beach.

Sheep-ish

This clip was emailed to me.

These guys really have too much time on their hands, but I appreciate the level of ingenuity and the level of effort needed to present this