Seawall and damaged land, Beachville Road. Looking towards Moncks Bay.
Retreat Road in Avonside following Feb 2011 earthquake - definitely not living up to its name anymore.... However, nice creative use of broken fence-pavers to create a bridge across pavement mudhole!
The riverbanks on Avonside Drive subsided dramatically towards water's edge following 22 Feb 2011 earthquake, although tall poplar trees rooted there somehow seemed to survive.... and the ubiquitous...
Corner of Avonside Drive and Retreat Road, walking home from work: eight months after Feb 2011 earthquake, & shortly before finally leaving the Residential Red Zone (property I rented was condemned &...
Even after the earthquakes, spring still came to Christchurch - along with the usual population explosion amongst the Paradise duck population! It was sort of reassuring, seeing normal seasonal...
October 2011 brought new spring greenery to the Avon Loop - and, of course, new flooding challenges to the Residential Red Zone.
Damage to the surface of road outside 265 Rivers Road, Richmond.
Traffic signage, road cones, and shipping container barriers on Tunnel Road, Heathcote Valley.
In the months following the 2011 earthquakes, sewage & drainage were entirely non-functional in most of the Residental Red Zone, so residents were provided with a number of.... alternative options!
Road works for new subdivision on Halswell Road
Flowers inserted in traffic cones as earthquake tributes on McBratney's Road, Dallington.
Cone with paper butterflies outside Consular Office of Japan, 12 Peterborough Street.
Decorated shipping containers beneath the cliff on the road to Sumner, Christchurch.
This decorated road cone was placed on a verge by a red zone home owner. The first lines of the poem stuck onto the front of the cone were "The time has come, I have to go. They say I must, just so...
Flowers inserted in roadcones as earthquake tributes on Queenspark Drive near corner with Rothesay Road.
Shipping containers against the cliff on the road to Sumner, Christchurch.
Queenspark Drive near Rothesay Road.
Earthquake damage to Provincial Hotel on the corner of Cashel Street and Barbadoes Street.
Fitzgerald Avenue between Heywood Terrace and Harvey Terrace looking south.