Sugar Loaf Mountain

Up behind our place is "Sugar Loaf Mountain" with a communications mast on the top of it.

When you go around the other side of the feature, you can see why it is called "Sugar Loaf".

It is 500 metres above sea level and is capped by a very "business-like" facility.

But its rugged views top those of the "tourist-like" facilities lower down.

Heathcote River

Besides the Avon River, another river flows through Christchurch. These photos are of the middle section of the Heathcote River.

The Heathcote flows through the southern suburbs of Christchurch

It is not quite as picturesque as the Avon.

But it has its attractions.

Marvellous Solution

I was walking on the railway overpass the other day and saw this truck with a container which it had obviously taken off a railway flatbed. I was amazed and wondered how it was done.

The truck drew up beneath me and the mystery was revealed. "Feet" were extended out first.

Then the container was lifted and shifted by hydraulic cranes.

The container was lowered to the ground. Then the hydraulic feet and cranes were retracted. What a marvellous solution.

Outside the Square

Not all the activity is in Cathedral Square.
This part of High Street is acknowledged even by baristas as a good area for a cup of coffee. There is nothing quite like peer approval.
The High Street end of Cashel Mall is where the Youth gather and have a lot of fun, under the police surveillance cameras.

Summer in the City

There was a lot of activity in Cathedral Square today. Here the Chess Set is in use. Behind it is a bungey apparatus for children.

Over the other side the food venders were doing good trade.

Motor traffic, that skirt around The Square, was queuing up because of the number of pedestrians using the crossing.

The holiday crowd was taking in the street market.