!! New Brighton Beach !!

!! NEW BRIGHTON BEACH !!

Why do I so love Christchurch ??

The beach at Christchurch is New Brighton, which quite surprised me with my Queensland pretensions: it is long, wide & the sand is actually yellow, not the omnipresent NZ black.

For example:

looking south to the Banks Peninsular ----- looking north to the open sea ...

My Footprints, for this beach that day was mine alone...

to cast mine eyes eastward to a thousand leagues of ancient open sea !!

or amble the wind swept dunes; as clouds thicken, then disperse...

And in the sand swept shopping mall, which slashed the fore-dunes at the perpendicular, I purchased a Led Zeppelin sleeveless sweater, which I still possess.

Ah, but the yellow sand grains which cloaked my person - like some golden transient shawl - have long since dwindled to drab nothing in the dust of fallen paths.

To Christchurch or Timaru or Home