The south side of the Wanganui River is one of my favourite local walks. In September, the annual white baiting season starts, and the river is decorated with structures to fish off and people trying to catch the tiny native juvenile fish heading upriver.   

Trees as viewed from walks along the roadways of South Westland.

Denniston Plateau a former (and maybe furture) mining area in the highlands north of Westport in New Zealand. Signs of human modification of the land is everywhere, but resistance to a new era of open cast coal mining has been in the news recently. This was a hard place to live and work back in the early days and the mining was substantially all underground. The new proposition will change the shape of the land substanially.