This is the main street into Hari Hari which is a small settlement on the West Coast, it has an approximate population of 250 people and is mostly a farming town, it takes us about 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there, we have driven through here probably 2 times in the last 4 years. The town does tend to get some heavy rain, flooding and snow on the mountains.
This week Whitebait season has started, I’ve heard stories about fishermen this week. Apparently one parked his truck on the sand here in Greymouth but forgot about the tide so the water took his truck away and the other one parked his bus on the road next to the beach in Hokitika but forgot to put the brake on so it went off by itself into the ocean.
We have a week of rain due, typical for Spring so I’ve planted pumpkin seeds I saved up from last season in plant pots in B’s greenhouse and when it gets warmer I will transplant them out into the vegetable garden. I also had ordered some mixed Dahlia seeds online so they got planted in a pot too. Hopefully I will have a high percentage of growth.
Linking up with Skywatch Friday and Tom’s Signs.
I love dahlias, big and full of colour. They’ll make quite a show.
As for those whitebaiters….. Too intent on those whitebait lol
…it’s dahlia season here!
Forgot about the tide? And the tide swallowed his truck? You have no idea how foreign this sounds to a landlocked Canadian….however, I just remembered a guy around here who parked on a lake to ice-fish and a couple of hours later his truck fell through the ice. Hmm… absentmindedness (or foolishness) is rather ubiquitous, isn’t it?
yup it’s true and so hard to believe someone forgot about the tide, sometimes people get so focused on the money making ideas of catching whitebait (cos they sell for a lot of money especially to local restaurants) that everything else goes out the window.
I love the mountains in the first picture and I hope your dahlias will be as beutiful as the ones in the last photo.
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what isn’t there yet, tides as well as the environmental warnings.