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Continue reading →: Ferrymead Bridge Intersection
This is the intersection on Bridle Path Road to Main road, St Andrews Hill and the Ferrymead bridge. For years I’ve had to navigate and ever changing set of road cones and barriers here and drivers really need to keep their wits about them. Fortunately, it doesn’t look like it…
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Continue reading →: A lunchtime out birdingAs is my normal routine, I went out for a walk this lunchtime, but today a brought my camera along with the intention of photographing some waxeyes I had previously seen eating some crab apples. I got to the crab apple tree and of course there were no waxeyes to…
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Continue reading →: View from Flowers Track
A beautiful winter’s day today, so we cycled to Sumner and then walked up Flowers Track in Scarborough to get this view. Making our way down the track.
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Continue reading →: Shand’s Emporium on Manchester Street
Shand’s Emporium is Christchurch’s oldest commercial wooden building (dating from the 1860’s). It didn’t come through the earthquakes very well and its future was looking bleak there for a while, but thanks to the efforts of property developer Anthony Gough and Christchurch Heritage it has been saved and will now be…
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Continue reading →: New Building on Victoria Street
This new building on Victoria Street houses Murray and Co – New Zealand merchant banking firm along with Duncan Cotterill a local law firm. Victoria Street has been quite ahead of other parts of the central city in its redevelopment. Mainly because it has be unencumbered by central government planning.…
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Continue reading →: Black Swans at Travis Wetlands
There are a lot of black swans at Travis Wetlands, but that doesn’t make them any less beautiful or graceful. To me it looked like these two were about to kiss!
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Continue reading →: Building Construction on Durham Street
Look at all of that steel. I’d certainly feel very safe in this new building that’s going up on Durham Street. Now I’m not sure if it’s an international trend or just a Christchurch one, but I’ve noticed a lot of our new buildings show the steel bracing as an…
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Continue reading →: Whole House Reuse Exhibition at the Canterbury MuseumAll of the items in the collage above were made from materials salvaged from a Christchurch red zoned house that was deconstructed very carefully for the purpose of this Re-use project. The materials were distributed to arts and craft’s people all around New Zealand. The works they created are now…
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Continue reading →: Kitten up a TreeHow cute is this wee kitty? Looks to be about six months old and very confident. I spotted him or her on Rolleston Avenue and after a quick pat it shot up this large tree.
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Continue reading →: The Central Police Building
What’s left of the old Police headquarters in the central city. The building was imploded last weekend so it could be brought down to a manageable level to demolish.
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The earthquakes really gave Christchurch the opportunity to fully embrace street art and now we’ve become well know for it.…
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The bridge looks great, and that sky is fantastic. Oh, I hope to visit Christchurch again some day 😀