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confluence

The Waimakariri begins to the east and courses through high mountainous countryside, emerging from a gorge to spill outwards in a braided fashion across the Canterbury Plains. It flows through the outskirts of Christchurch, at Kairaki. The mouth opens into a big tidal bay.

 

an interesting side I thought, all the silt from the river spilling into the Pacific Ocean, pic taken on my way to the North Island

 

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Uploaded on September 28, 2013
Taken on September 15, 2013