The New Zealand Assortment

The Craig Potton postcard range is most excellent. There again - he is one of our most well renowned photographers! Here you see "rush hour" as a flock of sheep are herded past the Vulcan motel and a maori Wharenui or Meeting House.

This is the wee silvereye, a tiny bird that came here on his own accord from Australia. This one is on kowhai. Kowhai is the Maori word for "yellow". And our most famous bird of all - the kiwi!

Hanmer Springs in Winter and the bridge there in autumn. Beautiful colours!

New Zealand, my beautiful country

Here are some of the wee 6x4 postcards I currently have on hand.


* Aoraki (Mt Cook) buried under snow
* Mitre Peak, in Fiordland



* Sign of the Takahe, looking across the Canterbury Plains (Christchurch)
* Lake Matheson again, this time its spring.

Canterbury Plains

Here's a couple of Canterbury Plains postcards I have picked up. The plains are a flat area surrounding Christchurch city and intersected by a number of braided rivers, including the Rakaia Gorge. They were once tussock grassland and swamp forest but now form a vast, flat patchwork quilt of pastures. Here sheep and cattle - and occasionally deer, llama and emu, are farmed. Both these postcards feature the same area - the Rakaia Gorge cutting through the center and the Southern Alps, with Mt Hutt, to the top left.

Lush and green - they're hardly ever this green! Must have been a good rainfall that season.


In winter - time to go skiing at Mount Hutt!