The Children's Playground

 Dixon Park, Greymouth.

I spent hours here as a child along with dozens of other kids.  The playground has changed, the equipment is much 'safer' now, and old equipment has been replaced or gone altogether.  Still a fun place for kids though.

Sawyer's Creek

Dixon Park, Greymouth 

 

Monteiths Brewery

Entrance to restaurant and bar.

Reception and bar looking toward restaurant.

Some of the beer vats.

 

Pounamu

 Pounamu, greenstone or jade. Take your pick.

Top picture, the rock comes up to my waist. Very large. 

Outside the railway station in Greymouth.

A smaller rock in Mawhera Pa, Greymouth

Grey River

Looking in both directions from the lookout on Mawhera Quay 

 

Greymouth Railway Station

 

Recycled plastic

 

ANZAC Day 2026

 Lest we forget.

Greymouth Cenotaph.

Looking south

 Looking south towards the Southern Alps from  Paroa Beach, Greymouth.

Two in one

 Yesterday's post.

Flying from Christchurch to Hokitika above the Southern Alps. Not a lot of snow but a little.

Today.

Ducks (zoom in) on the bank of Sawyers Creek in Dixon Park. 

The Cobden tiphead

The mouth of the Grey River,

Greymouth, NZ.

Looking across to the Cobden tiphead.

A shifting sandbar runs across the river mouth

 making it treacherous for shipping.

Cabbage trees amongst the flax

South Beach, Greymouth,
New Zealand

A deserted beach

South Beach, Greymouth, 

New Zealand

School gates

These gates stood outside Grey Main Primary School, 

Greymouth, New Zealand. (My old primary school).

They are a memorial to the men who served in the

 two world wars who had attended the school.

Even after the school was demolished they stood proudly 

outside the school grounds of what was a training institution

 of some sort until they disappeared one night in rather mysterious circumstances (in 2010, I believe). It transpired that some men had decided they were serving no good purpose and took it on themselves to dispose of them. Of course when the community discovered them missing the following morning there was a huge hue and cry and they were later recovered from the bush where they had been unceremoniously dumped. They were duly rescued and reinstated in the community, not at the original school site but at the main entrance to Dixon Park, a lovely childrens playground and gathering place for the community. There was some damage done but, as luck would have it, not a lot. I have to say I love to see them where they are now, standing proud once more.

joining Tom for Tuesday's Treasures

Old coke ovens

near Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand

Joining with:

Rubbish Tuesday

Post Script: 

The coke ovens are situated near a coal mine and were used to turn coal into coke.

Te Pounamou

New Zealand Jade

Greenstone. Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand

November again

city lights

sunshine on a bush

Ford GT 

Christmas is coming

a free pass

Greymouth motels

at the botanical gardens

West coast hideaway