Lakes of New Zealand
CoffeeWaffle:
One thing I really like about Flickr is the way you can just start a group with a handful of photos you took on your bike trip, and after just a few months you're watching high quality photography being added almost daily by other people.
Stumbled across Murray's flickr group and added a few of my own photos of Lake Tutira to the pot.
I took the photos back in 2005 when down visiting my parents, growing up in the Bay we spent many a weekend up at Tutira fly fishing or tramping around the surrounding hills - great spot. Sadly the area was ravaged by some serious flooding and the resulted in alot of the region being raised about 10 feet due to mud/earth moving around.
The rest of the photos from that day show some of the damage, with fence posts sticking out a few centimeters from the ground etc. It was quite impressive to see how much the landscape had changed through natural disaster - nothing quite like the scale of the 1931 Napier Earthquake but enough to make me understand just how it changed the Bay more.
Tutira's still a great wee holiday/camping spot, but its just not how I remember it now :(
We used to go to Tutira a lot as well - in fact, I almost drowned there,
about 25 years ago.