Here are a few pictures from our travels over the 2020-2021 holiday season.
First we visited Conway, stayed overnight near the beach and watched dolphins. The next morning we traveled up the east coast to Mapua, stopping along the way taking photos and 360 degree video.
The bulk of our time away from Canterbury was in the Nelson and Mapua area, with five nights in Redwood Valley and 3 nights at the Mapua camping ground.
We saw New Year’s Eve in at an off the grid log cabin in Glenhope on our way back to Canterbury. Two fantastic nights and lots of river walking! Simply beautiful territory.
We had a wonderful afternoon completing the 4 zip lines at the Christchurch Adventure Park, the height, the speeds, the side by side battle of the bulk.
Some of our family lives on a lifestyle block, and they have planted over the last few years a variety of pip and stone fruit trees. When we visited, we had in our mind to prune all of the trees not yet in the bud. As it is quite late in the season for pruning, we applied pruning paste to a few more cuts than perhaps we would usually – hope this helps the trees close their wounds.
No images of the pruning sadly, we got distracted with the task at hand. We dis discover some fungi growing on a rotting trunk and we did collect scion wood to experiment with grafting/root growth.
The landscape in our area is quite flat with mountains on one side and hills on the other. Depending on the direction we drive we get a view at the moment of snow covered mountains or green lush hills. The hills are the port hills that are the beginnings of the Banks Peninsula.
We love the way that the cloud and mist hangs around the foothills.
