Te Kopahou Reserve across to the South Island

Here are two pictures that I took 2 evenings ago from Te Kopahou Reserve, looking across to the South Island. If I had been [literally!] 5 minutes earlier, I would have got a much better shot of the setting run, but what I did get looks OK.

I like the combination of a red, clear, sky, and the fog sitting on the water in the distance.

The second image is zoomed in on an Interislander Ferry making the crossing to Picton.

Welcome to Wellington: Te Kopahou Reserve

Te Kopahou Reserve is about as far south/ west as you can get in Wellington in anything other than a 4x4, motorbike or by foot. The reserve is located at the sight of a long-disused rock quarry and until fairly recently was nothing more than a flat [well, sort of flat] patch of gravel that you could park on. It seems the in the last year or so the City Council has taken to laying a formed road, designated parking and putting a building there. A bit of a shame, but I guess it doesn't detract from the views too much.

I've included a number of photos in this batch - the obligatory across the rocks to the water shots, but also, across the bay to the old quarry, and also a look across Cooks Strait - the body of water separating New Zealand's North and South islands [you can see a ferry making the crossing, and in the far distance, the snow covered tops of the Kaikoura Ranges - click on the images to get larger versions].

I hope that you've enjoyed these images! Feel free to leave a comment with encouragement and suggestions - I'm very much an amateur at this whole photography gig, but I do seem to enjoy this and I'm perhaps [very??!] slowly getting better at it!