{"id":38810,"date":"2021-01-11T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38810"},"modified":"2021-01-05T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:46:42","slug":"a-few-scenic-photos-from-my-christmas-new-year-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/a-few-scenic-photos-from-my-christmas-new-year-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Scenic Photos From My Christmas — New Year Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather was not particularly clement over the Christmas — New Year break, but whenever the sun came out, even if only a break in the clouds, I tried to grab some photographic evidence of having gone “there and back again.”<\/p>\n

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I used this on the SU for Jan 1: it’s Raumati South on the Kapiti Coast, looking toward Kapiti Is. The ‘spike’ is a NZ flax flower.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes, though, the season even managed a skerrick of sunshine — chiefly when I was en route with a ferry to catch or commitment to keep, so couldn’t linger too long to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

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Looking south toward Mana Island<\/p><\/div>\n

Still, as alluded to on Christmas Eve<\/a>, I’m grateful (to both our government and my fellow citizens for all playing our part) to have been in the position to travel and be with family and friends at all.<\/p>\n

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Mana & Kapiti Islands again, seen from the Cook Strait ferry, leaving Wellington harbour<\/p><\/div>\n

And indeterminate weather and fleeting clear moments or not, some of the photos still ‘paint a picture.’<\/p>\n

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Entering the Marlborough Sounds, at the top of the South Island<\/p><\/div>\n

The crossing between the North and South Islands always makes for a sense of “return”, even with ca. half the island still to go before reaching home.<\/p>\n

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Rain or shine, some sights never pall: seal colony on the Kaikoura Coast<\/p><\/div>\n

But the sun was definitely out by the time we reached Kaikoura township.<\/p>\n

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The beachfront at Kaikoura<\/p><\/div>\n

I hope you’ve enjoyed this road journey slice of my “there and back again.”<\/p>\n

Take care, wherever you are, and stay as safe as possible in what appears to be the darkest hour before the dawn of widespread rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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