Showing posts with label Avonside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avonside. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Boxing Day in Sunny & Shaken Christchurch

Beautiful weather at North Brighton, but not many beachgoers.

Lifeguard Meg on the job.

Among the ruins in Linwood Avenue.

Pages Road, Aranui:
As his tenure as Dean of Christchurch Cathedral comes to an end, Peter Beck aims to represent the badly quake-hit Eastern suburbs as a City Councillor.

The Arts Centre seems to be relatively unscathed by the latest shakes.

A notable survivor:
The onetime DIC building, more recently home to Alice in Videoland and The Physics Room gallery.

High Street cafes show evidence of further damage from Friday's events.
The former Globe Cafe is at the right.

Interior of the Globe Cafe.

At the rear of the High Street shops.

Inner-city oasis behind High Street.

Recent damage to the temporarily patched-up building at the corner of Tuam and High Streets.

New damage in Tuam Street.

The former City Council building in Tuam Street, once the home of Millers department store.

Quake museum? Just around the corner from the recently reopened City Mall people peer into The Tap Room. Once a booming watering hole on the Oxford Terrace 'strip', it's been closed since the February quake. 

A glimpse into the City's damaged heart.
Until the February quake the empty plinth in the centre foreground was topped by the statue of Christchurch's 'founder', John Robert Godley.

Liquefaction in Bower Avenue.

The volunteer 'Christmas army' shovel silt in Parklands, one of the worst hit areas in Friday's quakes.

The army's handiwork: Silt awaiting collection in Dunair Drive, Parklands.

The Xmas spirit in Baker Street, Parklands.

The aftermath of a major eruption in Baker Street.

A former grass verge in Baker Street.

Flowers in a nearby garden continue to bloom amid the liquefaction.

Portaloo Santa in Locksley Avenue, Avonside.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

After the Deluge

A stormy day in Christchurch. Torrential rain and high winds started sometime around midnight and lasted until late afternoon.

Near the Swanns Road bridge the Avon strains its banks.

Has the level of the land dropped in the recent earthquakes?

A couple of weeks ago this pair of swans were working towards raising a family
Now their nest seems to be completely underwater.

A more fortunate duck family.

 
Surface flooding in Avonside.

Not a heavy metal traffic cone but yet another sinkhole. Since the quakes they've been appearing in all sizes, all over the place.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Lovely Red Zone For Ducks

Like the recent earthquake liquefaction, Christchurch's profusion of waterfowl is a reminder
that parts of the city were once swampland. While the human population of red-zoned
 Avonside gradually dwindles the birdies pursue a vigorous recovery program of their own.


Paradise ducklings

Look green go red - a black swan makes its nest in the Avonside red zone

Anticipating a clutch of fluffy beige cygnets

Saturday, September 17, 2011

First Bunch of Images - Welcome to Assorted Goodies

Christchurch Botanic Gardens, 1st anniversary of September 4 quake.

Conference Street, February 22 2011.

Avonside, 11 September 2011.