On Monday, November 28, 2011 7:05 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
Not quite. A different Little River: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_River_Band There is still a band performing under that name but it doesn't include any of the original members. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > :-) > > 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 -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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.
