[photos] New Zealand: Cape Palliser
Past Ngawi and the seal colony lies Cape Palliser itself. This is the southernmost tip of the North Island, and definitely qualifies as one of the world's ass-end-of-nowhere places. (I've visited a lot of them, from Point Barrow to the south Gobi Desert, and elsewhere.) Like most a-e-o-n places, Cape Palliser has a stark and compelling beauty of its own.
Cape Palliser Road exiting Ngawi.
Looking back at Ngawi.
The ocean wrapped in misty rain, as seen from the car.
A rather fine upthrusted ridge.
Handy and informative signage.
The coast gets a bit wilder.
Passing by the seal colony.
The lighthouse at the tip of the cape (seen from the west).
A closer view of same.
The lighthouse from the east side, where the road ends. Note the 200 or so rain-slicked wooden steps leading up. Given my general state of post-chemo exhaustion, I declined the climb.
Heading back from Ngawi, we pass a washout.
They're not kidding. Look closely at the edge of the road in this photo.
As usual, more at the Flickr set.
© 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Cape Palliser Road exiting Ngawi.
Looking back at Ngawi.
The ocean wrapped in misty rain, as seen from the car.
A rather fine upthrusted ridge.
Handy and informative signage.
The coast gets a bit wilder.
Passing by the seal colony.
The lighthouse at the tip of the cape (seen from the west).
A closer view of same.
The lighthouse from the east side, where the road ends. Note the 200 or so rain-slicked wooden steps leading up. Given my general state of post-chemo exhaustion, I declined the climb.
Heading back from Ngawi, we pass a washout.
They're not kidding. Look closely at the edge of the road in this photo.
As usual, more at the Flickr set.
© 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.