Joe works shifts, he starts with two nights and sleeps during the day, when he wakes after the second shift the rest of the day and evening he's at home, then he does the two day shifts. After that he's off for 3 1/2 days before going back on night shift on that fourth night, where it starts all over again. As we've been having such lovely weather he thought it might be a nice to head down to Raglan in between the night and day shift shifts, so that's what we did. The initial plan was to go to the beach first, let Max have a run, Joe do some fishing and then go get fish & chips from the Wharf, then I hoped to get some sunset pictures. We ended up getting the fish and chips first and taking them to the beach, that way we didn't have to go back to get sunset photos. Now you may be thinking that surely the hunter gatherer himself would have caught sufficient fish for our tea that night! Well think again my lovelies, there appear to be no fish in the sea in NZ! Never mind though the fish & chips were good, the
dangling bits of bait in the water fishing enjoyable and the sunset pretty amazing. My camera seems to really intensify the colours when I use the zoom lens. So with out further ado, here are a few of the photos I took. If you want to see some more you can have a look at the ones on my
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I wanted to try and recreate a photo I took years back of Joe fishing in the surf at Raglan with the sun setting, the picture is the first picture, I didn't getting it exactly, the camera played silly buggers just when I thought I had it, never mind though, I like some of them and there's always other days.
See ya next time, I'm off to do a bit of sewing today
Now that, is what you call a sunset. Great pictures. I especially like the dog, ears flat, tearing along. Wonderful! X
ReplyDeleteI know it's pretty spectacular down there, one day we'll venture around the headland and watch it from the other side. Ah yeah our Maxy, he loves it down there, still doesn't seem quite right without Clyde there :(
DeleteStunning photos! Some of them could grace a travel brochure, well done.
ReplyDeleteCheers, there's quite a bit of difference with the old sunset photo taken with my old cybershot and the new ones with my SLR Canon. I love my camera :D
DeleteHad to come straight over, you just made me howl laughing!! a proper LOL with your comment on my blog! I'd have farted too hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteand these are gorgeous photo's, you have made my evening brilliant and you shown fish and chips too mmmm x x xI love you do a scouse accent! x x x
I thought you would like that, haha, I probably would have peed at some point too! Sad innit, good pelvic floor muscles are all but a distant memory. I can do all sorts of accents, I am terrible really, I tend to break into the accent of people I'm with, I reckon they think I'm taking the piss lol
DeleteTruly lovely photos Sue! Glad Joe saved a few fish for someone else. cheers Wendy
ReplyDeleteThanks luv! Joe's good like that, leaves plenty for the others haha
DeleteFush n' chups at the beach, my fav dinner! Do you have one of those fancy cameras? You sure take lovely photo's.
ReplyDeleteYeah ya can't beat good fish and chips eh, especially at the beach. The camera is a Canon EOS650D, so yeap a fance camera. One day I will learn how to use the proper settings on it :D
DeleteThe West Coast of NZ is a wonderful place for great sunsets...yours included. Shame about the lack of fish ....I think they are catching some further South. Better luck next time. The sea air will have done you good.
ReplyDeleteWhen we went to see friends just before New Year, they are regular fishermen, and they were having no luck at all, apparently the trawlers went through before Christmas. You'd think they would not do that for the two weeks when everyone is on holiday so they could at least do some recreational fishing. And yet they limit them, never the big catchers. Summat wrong there.
DeleteYour photos are amazing … love them!!
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Thanks luv, I really should learn how to use it properly, all those buttons....*sweats* ;-D
DeleteThose beautiful beach photos warmed me right up. It was 2 degrees F when i left for work this morning up here in the frozen tundra of western New York.
ReplyDeleteI see the US is getting some shocking cold weather, also the UK where our families are. I couldn't live with that cold anymore, so stay warm and be safe. Some of the road accidents over on your roads have made it to NZ tv, they look pretty bad, one videao I watched was purely people driving too fast! Not good :(
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