A quick trip up to the Skipper’s canyon turnoff was just the thing I needed to do this morning to get a new series of photos for the splashback image library
This is an amazing area and right on our door step too.
I first went into this area in 2014 while taking my son into the Wakatipu high school branches camp. The road is a bit hair raising to say the least, and annoying as well, mainly because there aren’t that many places to pull over and get some photos. In fact, you are lucky if you can find a place to pull over and let someone coming the other way get past you.
The road eventually opens up into Branches Station where the High school kids camp for 10 days of outdoor adventure. Some kids love it so much that they return to help out the next years camp.
The area rich in history as hardy (foolhardy) souls pushed in to this very remote area in search of gold.
It is certainly up and down country and the narrow dirt road is sometimes impassable due to slips.
This image (above) is a bit of photo art I did inspired by those early mining days
This time I didn’t go very far into the canyon, just far enough to capture the rugged country. This image has been stitched and is nearly 2.5 m long by 900mm high. It has wonderful detail in the tussocks and snow on the distant mountains
and of course it also looks great as a splashback
and pretty good as a piece of wall art as well.
This is the view you get across to the Remarkables from the Skippers Canyon road.
which also looks great as a splashback
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