kane.hartill
Pukaki Blue
'Morning Aoraki... love those expansive big sky views in the Mackenzie.
My week long sojourn down south became pretty much a glaciated basins tour. Pukaki and Tekapo, then up to Erewhon, Algidus and across to Flock Hill... hadn't been to a lot of these areas for a long while and so it was interesting to see the change.
Back in the day those dusty roads into the alps were often unfenced, winding across tawny tundra-like subtle outwash and moraine featuring. Merinos, rabbits, hieracium, erratics, loess, history.
Now the agro-juggernaut has wiped those aesthetics away, replaced by deer fencing, plastic baleage lines, sheds and skeletal iron. Centre pivots on the lateral downs encroach right up beyond the top end of Lake Tekapo. Very adept at manufacturing roller smooth mono green - sad to see that spreading on the glacial uplands below Mystery Lake, on the scenic trail to Mount Sunday.
Pukaki Blue
'Morning Aoraki... love those expansive big sky views in the Mackenzie.
My week long sojourn down south became pretty much a glaciated basins tour. Pukaki and Tekapo, then up to Erewhon, Algidus and across to Flock Hill... hadn't been to a lot of these areas for a long while and so it was interesting to see the change.
Back in the day those dusty roads into the alps were often unfenced, winding across tawny tundra-like subtle outwash and moraine featuring. Merinos, rabbits, hieracium, erratics, loess, history.
Now the agro-juggernaut has wiped those aesthetics away, replaced by deer fencing, plastic baleage lines, sheds and skeletal iron. Centre pivots on the lateral downs encroach right up beyond the top end of Lake Tekapo. Very adept at manufacturing roller smooth mono green - sad to see that spreading on the glacial uplands below Mystery Lake, on the scenic trail to Mount Sunday.