Beach combing.....
Great place for beach combing along the West Coast beaches.
Granity is a small town on the West Coast, South Island, NZ. It is squeezed between the Tasman Sea to the west and steep forested cloud-shrouded mountains to the immediate east. The town is the largest in this sparsely populated part of New Zealand. Long known as a coal mining town, the population has declined as the industry has waned and several neighbouring towns have now become ghost towns.
The name "Granity" was given to the town by gold prospectors, in reference to the large quantity of granite in the area.
Granity has a school, theatre, cafe's, small library, band rotunda and an op shop.
Two weeks holiday on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, from Karamea in the north down to Jackson's Bay in the south, April-May 2012. Only a handful of shots from the first part of the trip, the others have been lost much to my dismay.
Beach combing.....
Great place for beach combing along the West Coast beaches.
Granity is a small town on the West Coast, South Island, NZ. It is squeezed between the Tasman Sea to the west and steep forested cloud-shrouded mountains to the immediate east. The town is the largest in this sparsely populated part of New Zealand. Long known as a coal mining town, the population has declined as the industry has waned and several neighbouring towns have now become ghost towns.
The name "Granity" was given to the town by gold prospectors, in reference to the large quantity of granite in the area.
Granity has a school, theatre, cafe's, small library, band rotunda and an op shop.
Two weeks holiday on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, from Karamea in the north down to Jackson's Bay in the south, April-May 2012. Only a handful of shots from the first part of the trip, the others have been lost much to my dismay.