Remembering Sunnier Days

Te Kaio, Banks Peninsular. February 2009. Ajr I've just spent the last two hours sorting photographs and I came upon this perfect-blue day at Te Kaio Bay on Banks Peninsular, about an hour from Christchurch. As I sit here now, shivering in the winter cold, it's hard to imagine a day so blue, so clear, so beautiful.

Totally Turquoise

Banks Peninsular, Canterbury. Jan 2009. Ajr

Another perfect coastal scene from my visit to Te Kaio Bay - also known as Tumbledown Bay - on Banks Peninsular last week.

Perfect Blue

Te Kaio Bay, Banks Peninsular. Jan.2009. Ajr

I am suddenly in love with Te Kaio Bay!

Otherwise known as Tumbledown Bay, this isolated little patch of perfection was where I went two days ago. And these are just three of dozens of images I took of the perfect-blue day. It was blistering hot, the land was parched and golden and the clouds, a delicate whisp. It's my kind of landscape - dramatic and breathtakingly beautiful; just the sort of place I could fling myself down in and not ever move from.