Well, I struggled to look at your gallery on my phone. ;-)
A lovely set of photos they are, too, especially given the equipment used to capture them. Little River; wasn't there a band from there in the 80s? :-) cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: David Mann <[email protected]> Sent: November 28, 2011 11/28/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: GESO: Little River Rail Trail Little River is the name of a small town on Banks Peninsula, about halfway between Christchurch and Akaroa. There used to be a railway that ran from there to Christchurch city, but its use was discontinued in 1962. Starting just a few years ago, the old railway is being converted into a trail which can be walked or biked. This has been done in a few other parts of the country as well the most famous being the Central Otago Rail Trail which is about 150km long. We went over to Little River for the weekend and while Janet was busy with a small conference on Saturday afternoon, I got on my bike and did the rail trail as far as Motukarara. The trail does go further than this but it departs from the original railway line at that point, and that's as far as I'd planned to go. It will eventually reach the outer Christchurch suburb of Hornby, where the railway used to end. http://www.multi.net.nz/rail-trail/ These are all cellphone pics which I struggled to take. It was bright and sunny and I could barely see anything on the screen of the phone so composition was largely done by guesswork. I haven't touched them in Photoshop. It was an enjoyable ride despite the conditions. I'd been intending to do this trail for a long time but never got around to it. It's an easy track with no hills and it seems to be well looked after and there's lots of birdlife at this time of year. The only downside is that it's very exposed to the weather. I rode it on a hot day and the wind came up while I was out there so I had a tough head wind all the way back. Ran out of drink about 10 minutes from the finish so I'm glad I carried as much as I did. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
