The Rakaia river with the snow covered Southern Alps.
The Rakaia river It rises in the Southern Alps, travelling 150 kilometres in a generally easterly or southeasterly direction before entering the Pacific Ocean 50 kilometres south of Christchurch. It forms a hapua as it reaches the ocean.
(A hapua is a river-mouth lagoon on a mixed sand and gravel beach, formed at the river-coast interface where a typically braided, although sometimes a meandering river interacts with a coastal environment that is significantly affected by longshore drift.)
From Wikipedia.
The Rakaia river with the snow covered Southern Alps.
The Rakaia river It rises in the Southern Alps, travelling 150 kilometres in a generally easterly or southeasterly direction before entering the Pacific Ocean 50 kilometres south of Christchurch. It forms a hapua as it reaches the ocean.
(A hapua is a river-mouth lagoon on a mixed sand and gravel beach, formed at the river-coast interface where a typically braided, although sometimes a meandering river interacts with a coastal environment that is significantly affected by longshore drift.)
From Wikipedia.