Photo taken in the middle of Winter on a cold morning down one of the little side streets in town. There is apparently a good Asian restaurant down here on the right that we keep meaning to try and where the bicycles are is a bike shop. I'm actually surprised that there are still public phone boxes as most people have cellphones. We have had the most wild weather I think I've seen in literally years. Much of the South Island of New Zealand has been wopped with a bad storm to the point where everyone's electricity went off for a few hours, trees were down, there were road slips and roads into different areas were closed. We are all good now but it's been a wild event. The town had no water supply for a day due to a bolt of lightning hitting one of the reservoir pumps but thankfully many people like myself have tank water (ours is 36,000 ltrs) and the council and some local businesses were offering temporary water supply from other sources. As usual the locals were goin...
This is Greymouth's local town square. To the left is an art gallery, a cafe, a gift shop and several other businesses. I've had a few comments about "where are the people". The local population is just over 2000 but there are a lot of surrounding tiny settlements too so it's not just pooled all in one place. Most of the jobs in the West Coast region consist of farmers, retail workers, miners and train workers just to name a few so you won't see large numbers of people out and about all the time except at maybe community events. New Zealanders are also well known for keeping to themselves and most don't like having photos taken of them by someone they don't know. Linking up with Skywatch Friday and Tom's Signs .