After my early YAWN flight to Christchurch it was on to my home town of Hokitika on NZ8830 on 9 March 2020...
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| Push back from the terminal at Christchurch - a nor-west arch kind of sky with a dull gray overcast in Christchurch |
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| Lined up on 02 looking west |
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| Man its dry here - looks like Waikato |
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| The braided Waimakariri River... not a great deal of water |
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| The new look on the Canterbury plains - irrigated dairy country |
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| The last vestiges of Eyrewell State Forest - as ex NZ Forest Service, feeling sad |
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| Forest Field - no Forest sadly |
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| Looking south |
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| The Waimakariri River |
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| Looking over to the Rakaia River headwaters... |
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| ...and Lake Coleridge |
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| Coming up to the main divide |
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| Cloud cover on the descent to Hokitika to just north of Ross - Mt Cook peeking above the clouds |
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| On the approach for 03 |
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| The Hokitika bar where many a ship foundered and many aircraft missed approached... the low murky stuff on the right often sits here and thwarts breaking visual |
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| Sunshine Point - under threat from continual storms |
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| Home town |
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| Turning around the end of 03/21 - 04/22 in my days! |
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| The terminal was chocka with people |
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| And my ride over the alps as it departs for Christchurch... please move the GPU |
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