The Road That Doesn't Want Travelers

Today we went to Sumner which is a small town just outside the city that has been badly damaged by the quakes because it is built into the side of a mountain. On our first day here, a man from Sumner described the road that leads into town as being "The road that doesn't want travelers" because after the quakes one side of the road started to get covered by rocks that are falling from the cliffs and the other side was being licked by the ocean most hours of the day. On a windy day the high tide will cover the edge of the road for a few minutes. We went down that road to enter the town and the whole time you are on it you can feel how much you shouldn't be. on the side with the falling rocks they have packing trailers (almost the size of semi trailers) Stacked 2 high to stop the rocks from killing the road. it is hardly more than one lane wide. It is the only pass for the people of Sumner to get into Christchurch where most of them work unless they drive around the mountains on the inland side which is several tens of miles extra. It was quite weird being on the road.







Pretty flower huh?



We had planned to hike at a place called Taylors Mistake which has lots of sheer cliffs and amazing views...but as usual our plans did not work out. Since the quakes they have had to close the pass because there are falling rocks that may or may not kill you if you aren't careful. We did however see some really nice views.





I really like that there is just a huge hole in the mountain.

I have noticed that I only really take pictures of rocks and plants...I really like trees and decided that I will live in a NZ tree later in life because they are just very cool.