Showing posts with label Mokau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mokau. Show all posts

Friday, 30 March 2012

FSO - Neglected structures

 A topic I love this week -  abandoned or neglected structures.  These always catch my eye and I posted about some of them along the road where I live a few weeks ago, so only a couple of this week's shots are close to home.  I've used them before but, to me, they are too perfect for the topic to be left out.

Two years ago this little bridge was neglected...
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a few floods later it is now abandoned:

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A little hut under a tree on an historic site - that of New Zealand's first Catholic mission at Purakau.  Looks like its most recent use has been as a hunter's hut.

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 I can't remember precisely where this was, around Horeke I think.  We'd pulled off the side of a Hokianga back road for lunch beside a little creek.  

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 The next two were shot out the car window, along the road to Taranaki last weekend.  The second was just before Mokau. 

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 This little structure once played an important part of life at the Pouto Lighthouse.

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I'm looking forward to seeing the neglected and abandoned structures from the rest of the FSO team.  They will be here.