GKPE 8, Yet more NZ ramblings from some flightless Kiwis.

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Sometimes you have to run to get the shot!

I’ve been in Fox Glacier for the past two weeks volunteering to help clean up the rubbish after the storm that happened in March and the flood that took part of an old dump site. (#operationtidyfox)
We got dropped off at 4.30pm, just got the time to walk back to the camping ground, get in my van and rush to the Island of Reflection viewpoint at Lake Matheson. Got there just as sunset was happening. It was perfect! But as always, it’s the light after sunset that I like the most (#2).

virginie24jb wrote in post #18903708
Sometimes you have to run to get the shot!

I’ve been in Fox Glacier for the past two weeks volunteering to help clean up the rubbish after the storm that happened in March and the flood that took part of an old dump site. (#operationtidyfox)
We got dropped off at 4.30pm, just got the time to walk back to the camping ground, get in my van and rush to the Island of Reflection viewpoint at Lake Matheson. Got there just as sunset was happening. It was perfect! But as always, it’s the light after sunset that I like the most (#2).

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You're a blue light fan Beautiful shots.

Been wondering where you are - great you are helping with that awfu clean up. Hope it gets done before the rains.

Been looking again - there is just something about the second

roseyposey wrote in post #18903713
You're a blue light fan Beautiful shots.

Been wondering where you are - great you are helping with that awfu clean up. Hope it gets done before the rains.

I saw lake Matheson 40 yrs ago, driving in the early morning, came round a corner and thought I was going to drive into the lake, but also you could not see where the lake and the sky joined. Magic place in early or late, still air.

roseyposey wrote in post #18903713
Been wondering where you are - great you are helping with that awfu clean up. Hope it gets done before the rains.

It rained heavily today so we stopped early this morning but they now have a finish date and think they will be able to finish at mid-August. I’m staying until the 11th, hopefully we’ll be done by then. Seeing the progress on site has been incredible. I would really like to see the end of it.
It’s an amazing human experience. So beautiful to see so many people from different age, origin... all here with the same purpose and a smile on their face every day.

kiwichris wrote in post #18903714
I saw lake Matheson 40 yrs ago, driving in the early morning, came round a corner and thought I was going to drive into the lake, but also you could not see where the lake and the sky joined. Magic place in early or late, still air.

I've been down that way years ago, but not really taking notice. It looks a great place.

virginie24jb wrote in post #18903715
It rained heavily today so we stopped early this morning but they now have a finish date and think they will be able to finish at mid-August. I’m staying until the 11th, hopefully we’ll be done by then. Seeing the progress on site has been incredible. I would really like to see the end of it.
It’s an amazing human experience. So beautiful to see so many people from different age, origin... all here with the same purpose and a smile on their face every day.

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Lovely to see you all. Thankyou for your help in a place that I have wonderful memories of.

virginie24jb wrote in post #18903715
It rained heavily today so we stopped early this morning but they now have a finish date and think they will be able to finish at mid-August. I’m staying until the 11th, hopefully we’ll be done by then. Seeing the progress on site has been incredible. I would really like to see the end of it.
It’s an amazing human experience. So beautiful to see so many people from different age, origin... all here with the same purpose and a smile on their face every day.

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Its an amazing thing what everyone is doing. Clearly we (NZ) need to rethink about waste disposal. Personally I think we need to think about the creation of waste, and I am asking Supermarket not to use so much plastic. Wondering about other ways - eg shopping differently, but less conveniently.

roseyposey wrote in post #18903713
Been looking again - there is just something about the second

Yes, it’s definitely my favorite from this shoot.

kiwichris wrote in post #18903717
Lovely to see you all. Thankyou for your help in a place that I have wonderful memories of.

Happy to be here! I will have very fond memories of that place too now.

roseyposey wrote in post #18903718
Its an amazing thing what everyone is doing. Clearly we (NZ) need to rethink about waste disposal. Personally I think we need to think about the creation of waste, and I am asking Supermarket not to use so much plastic. Wondering about other ways - eg shopping differently, but less conveniently.

It truly is amazing.

It certainly makes you think and it definitely changed my perspective on things very quickly. We found so many things... some old glass from 1972, plastic from 1990... and they look brand new. It’s horrifying.

virginie24jb wrote in post #18903722
It truly is amazing.

It certainly makes you think and it definitely changed my perspective on things very quickly. We found so many things... some old glass from 1972, plastic from 1990... and they look brand new. It’s horrifying.

There a thing that does the Facebook rounds, and came on my page today, about a young thing at a check out berating an older person about recycling.

It's really interesting, and I lived in this era, when milk came in recyclable bottles, there was a reward for recycling glass fizz and beer bottles, groceries came in brown paper bags, from a large bin, bread was unwrapped, not in plastic, meat was wrapped in paper - etc etc.

We can't avoid plastic now - it's everywhere.

roseyposey wrote in post #18903724
There a thing that does the Facebook rounds, and came on my page today, about a young thing at a check out berating an older person about recycling.

It's really interesting, and I lived in this era, when milk came in recyclable bottles, there was a reward for recycling glass fizz and beer bottles, groceries came in brown paper bags, from a large bin, bread was unwrapped, not in plastic, meat was wrapped in paper - etc etc.

We can't avoid plastic now - it's everywhere.

Oh and we used baskets and shopping bags that were resuseable. In fact, as I remember, nothing was single use.

So that was NZ in the fifties - and how much progress we have made <cynical smile>

Here's the Facebook thing about recycling etc:

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on toexplain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

Rose McGillicuddy

Wonderful images and fantastic work! I drove through Franz and Fox last week - the damage is stunning!