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Friday, 6 June 2025

A RIDE ON THE TRAIN

Yesterday I caught a train from Wellington up to Waikanae, which is about 60k north of Wellington (the distance varies from 50k to 78k depending which website you consult!). Some of the route follows the coast and has some great views, so I took some photos. The weather was a bit patchy yesterday but there were some sunny parts.

Trains tend to have dirty windows which mess up photos, so before the train left I cleaned a suitable patch of window on the outside with my handkerchief!

Usually I stick to taking photos with a camera, but yesterday I was sussing out the internal camera on a 12" Samsung tablet. The big tablet was a bit ungainly to use as a camera, but after a quick edit in Snapseed, I liked each of these photos.


Tawa:




Porirua:

 

Pukerua Bay:

 

The West coast:
 

 

Takapu Road:


Pukerua Bay again but edited in OneLab:


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