We are now out at New Brighton looking down the street behind the beach. This area got hit by the quake badly and it all looks deserted and uncared for.
The great New Brighton Pier. We walked out to the end. Refreshing being out on the coast for the first time since we left home. Nothing like the sea air.
You can get really close to the birds.
Walking to the end of the Pier.
Hello
Right at the circular end. A few fisherman.
PTs alway ready to have a chat,
He was keeping an eye on me ready to fly.
Looking south along the beach. The Port Hills in the back ground. If you zoom in you will see where we were at the top of the hill in the gondola yesterday. Just above the grey roofs on a group of houses. You will see the cafe buildings.
The Pier goes out in front of this building. Not sure what they use it all for but on the left it’s set up as a bar. Nice position looking out to sea and straight down the pier. What a great day.
This is the old Pub across the road from the previous photo. We then caught the bus back to the city interchange bus station to change buses back to base for lunch.
Above and below photo. This area of New Brighton just in from the sea was all part of the red zone after the earthquake. They lost all the houses. It’s a big area both sides of the street on the way out to the beach. The area is much bigger than it looks.. very sad. They have now cleared all the rubble away and the grass has grown back . It can’t be build on again so they are talking about planting it all in trees to make a nice reserve area.
As we approach the outskirts of the city there are lots of empty plots that they are using for car parking. Not sure if all the spare plots can be build on again.
Another plot, they are everywhere, at least they have tidied the areas up from all the rubble that was here when we were down two years after the quake. I will never forget the day we drove into Christchurch City in 2013. It was so hard to witness the state the city was in. Piles of bricks, stones etc everywhere you looked. But now in the centre of the city there has been so much new construction done in the big big rebuild. All looking very smart and modern. Just like the photo I posted on our first day in Christchurch in the area where the Memorial Steps are and all the eating areas right along the banks of the Avon.
Back at the bus interchange looking over the road to this sad old building. Note the mini car going down the left side of the building!!
Another angle of the broken building taken through the window of the bus.
Changed buses and went back to base, had a quick lunch then onto another bus out to the Wingram Airforce Museum.
Poppies have been placed on all the panels of the names of the men who have died while in service.
The families will be interested to see D. L Thompson’s name towards the bottom of the above middle panel.
Close up of Des’s name. For those who don’t know, Desmond was one of two Brothers of Peters father, who died during the war. Imagine loosing two out of four boys in one family. Terrible for the families.
Canberra — was the first British manufactured jet bomber. After World War Two it served in the RNZAF
Arvo Anson — Originally designed as a civilian chartered aircraft. Went on to have a successful military career.
Lockheed Hudson MK 111 — was the first modern operational aircraft flown by the RNZAF
The above two photos are of the
Iroquois— is one of the most well known helicopter in the world. It served in the RNZAF for 49 years and was a familiar sight in NZ skies.
McDonald Douglas Skyhawk — produced in 1954 and became one of the worlds serving carrier-borne combat Aircraft and was acquired by a number of countries including New Zealand and Australia.
Read the print alone the bottom
Around the middle of the day this big white cloud formed a big circle over the city. Then it was clear blue sky outside of the circle. Quite spectacular.
We are just coming out of the Wigram Museum and heading back to base for the rest of the day.
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