Amazing display by mother nature today. You can see the 3-4 metre wall of wave in Muritai Bay and in the foreground is sea where it has never been before. Not in the 25 years I have lived here.
A park bench and pontoon had both disappeared. A young man sped past on his motor scooter heading south with surfboard tucked under his arm. I smiled quietly wondering how the police launch was going to cope with that.
And while I enjoy a bracing bumpy flight into Wellington Airport (remember airports??) you can leave me out of ferry trips across heaving seas.
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I remember the old Aranui cook strait ferry, it had an observation lounge at the front of the vessel just below the bridge, on stormy crossings the waves would crash over the bow and slam against the windows of the observation lounge, all this to the sound of crashing crockery from the galley. Fun times.
Does the foam gather on the beaches? I suppose the wind just blows it away. Post big storm beaches in Coolum Australia, were sandless and fortified with mountains of foul smelling sea foam.
It does and it always intrigues me because on a calm day the harbour water looks pretty clear and clean. What constitutes the foam? Maybe I am irrational because when the foam is there I am reluctant to let the dog swim but she does every other day. Whatever the weather.
We were planning to come to Wellington in early April, exact date not set, when our cruise leaving on 12 April was obviously cancelled. We were going to be in Lower Hutt/Petone for a couple of nights and included in our plans were thoughts of taking a ferry from Days Bay or Eastbourne into the city.
Do those ferries still run Lindsay because we will be though sometimes and seems a better option than the train or finding parking.
Lindsay, from somebody land locked in the middle of farming country, standing on a Wellington beach in the face of a Southerly gale is the stuff dreams are made of.
pdm, not running during lockdown but normally, yes. Here's the link to website, timetable etc.
https://eastbywest.co.nz/timetables-and-fares
Thank you Lindsay - much appreciated..
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