These are more pictures of the sand dunes at Sandfly Bay on the Otago Peninsula.
There is a trail of sorts that takes you up past all these dunes towards the top of Sandymount which is where we went next on our adventure (we went by car). The trail goes up this sandy hillside. Of course, walking uphill in the sand is like walking up a ski hill in shoes. For every step forward you slide back 2 steps. It must be great for training.
This area is terribly windy. These trees look ancient and have grown almost horizontally because of the winds. Wooly-faced sheep were everywhere up here, apparently not bothered by the wind and cold.
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Congrats on the house (if muted because, well, you know, you did put a lot of work into it).
And my heavens, but it does look windy there, given the horizontal trees.
Question, though: As I read, I'm following your Subarunic travels via Google maps. They're details. But there's an oddity: Broad green swaths marked simply as "exotic forest." Big swaths of it north of Dunedin -- north of Three Mile Hill Road and west of Highway 1.
What is that, exactly -- exotic how? Purple trees? Plants that do salacious dances? For that matter, once you get away from the coast, the map, even on its most detailed level, has big blankish parts -- not too many roads, just dirt tracks and creeks. What's there? Lots of sheep? Lots of nothing?
Pat.
I think when they say "exotic forest" what they mean is "native forest" as in ferns and old native trees as opposed to pine forests or aspen forests. They really aren't as exotic as they sound.
And yes, there are huge amounts of land that are basically sheep pastures with maybe some farm truck "roads" cutting through them and not much else. The Dept of Conservation buys up lots of land around here & lets farmers use it so it isn't developed.
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