Found you a couple days ago looking for news of the floods. I am addicted now to your videos. The Top Mount camera is really something. Kudos to whomever thought that one up. This video reminds me of our Southern Oregon Coast. Thank You for taking the walk to share the walking bridge/river with us. Interesting that we have several spots like that here. Makes the world seem a little smaller and familiar. Keep up the GREAT work!
I so enjoy these trips you guys do - Otira Gorge hubby & did one year (years ago with the kids) & then later later during the earlier earthquakes back in the late 80's. Still as I remember it, beautiful.
Came because you had Canterbury flooding stuff stayed for the trip up to Arthurs pass the day before. Nice. I know these passes so well countless times over 45 years i've been though these sometimes to go tramping other times just because of their beauty. On a sad note all of this is coming to an end not because of my age but for everybody.
@@maieldmik5233 In short an inability of people in all country's, for a number of different reasons to see the reaility that awaits us in the not to distant future. Indeed even to question whats happened economically in the last 40 or 50 years New Zealand is not going to escape whats coming. Nothing special about me i'm just average. But for what ever reason i'm one of those that does not wake up every morning and take it all at face value, accept the status quo because it's there. I question everything that leads people like me to places many of us dont go. It's also where the status quo doesn't want people going. It's also where the further right you sit politicly the less inclined you are to go, because of course it means confronting power, which those on the right for what ever reason are less inclined to do. It's becoming harder and harder to find truth that alone should terrify us all. Ask the Question why is that? But if you really want the answer. Environmentally co2 levels are already so high that our planet's climate is collapsing it seems slow to people or they think it's not happening, lost in the huge variation that is our weather, our winter's and summer's but on a planets time scale this is happening in the blink of an eye. It is already almost to late many believe it is. But there are things that can be done right now with present technology to remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere....crickets. Which brings us to why, why is nothing being done? This is simple. in short those who are profiting the most from present system dont want it to change. The banks, the corporations, the 1 %, down to people with a comfy life style who dont want to look to hard, dont want to rock the boat. Only the pathology's involved here are far from benign. My advise to all New Zealanders is think very carefully about where you put your vote. Of the two main partys one is at best a lesser of two evils vote. The other is a vote for your own extinction. Who ever thought it was a good idea to let bankers in control of a world needs to revist that. Only the trouble is now, they are in control of our world. And they dont like being confronted. Really comes down now to people having some balls and standing up to the status quo on a global scale. Hard to do when you have a mortgage or are paying rent but either the working class change the system now or wait to when the planet changes it for us it will be so much worse.
Next time your down there you should do a vlog on where the Otira hotel is at these days under Lester’s stewardship. On a historical note, Christine Hannah, Bill’s wife and previous owner, died a few weeks ago.
In 1953a4, my mother and father walked over on the road, and back to Arthur pass and back by train with imbe and coal ,itwas a great walk in my days🎉
Found you a couple days ago looking for news of the floods. I am addicted now to your videos. The Top Mount camera is really something. Kudos to whomever thought that one up. This video reminds me of our Southern Oregon Coast. Thank You for taking the walk to share the walking bridge/river with us. Interesting that we have several spots like that here. Makes the world seem a little smaller and familiar. Keep up the GREAT work!
I so enjoy these trips you guys do - Otira Gorge hubby & did one year (years ago with the kids) & then later later during the earlier earthquakes back in the late 80's. Still as I remember it, beautiful.
Came because you had Canterbury flooding stuff stayed for the trip up to Arthurs pass the day before.
Nice. I know these passes so well countless times over 45 years i've been though these sometimes to go tramping other times just because of their beauty.
On a sad note all of this is coming to an end not because of my age but for everybody.
What ,or why is this coming to the end? Have I missed something? Cheers
What ,or why is this coming to the end? Have I missed something? Cheers
@@maieldmik5233
In short an inability of people in all country's, for a number of different reasons to see the reaility that awaits us in the not to distant future.
Indeed even to question whats happened economically in the last 40 or 50 years
New Zealand is not going to escape whats coming.
Nothing special about me i'm just average. But for what ever reason i'm one of those that does not wake up every morning and take it all at face value, accept the status quo because it's there.
I question everything that leads people like me to places many of us dont go. It's also where the status quo doesn't want people going.
It's also where the further right you sit politicly the less inclined you are to go, because of course it means confronting power, which those on the right for what ever reason are less inclined to do.
It's becoming harder and harder to find truth that alone should terrify us all. Ask the Question why is that?
But if you really want the answer.
Environmentally co2 levels are already so high that our planet's climate is collapsing it seems slow to people or they think it's not happening, lost in the huge variation that is our weather, our winter's and summer's but on a planets time scale this is happening in the blink of an eye.
It is already almost to late many believe it is.
But there are things that can be done right now with present technology to remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere....crickets.
Which brings us to why, why is nothing being done?
This is simple. in short those who are profiting the most from present system dont want it to change. The banks, the corporations, the 1 %, down to people with a comfy life style who dont want to look to hard, dont want to rock the boat.
Only the pathology's involved here are far from benign.
My advise to all New Zealanders is think very carefully about where you put your vote.
Of the two main partys one is at best a lesser of two evils vote.
The other is a vote for your own extinction.
Who ever thought it was a good idea to let bankers in control of a world needs to revist that. Only the trouble is now, they are in control of our world. And they dont like being confronted.
Really comes down now to people having some balls and standing up to the status quo on a global scale.
Hard to do when you have a mortgage or are paying rent but either the working class change the system now or wait to when the planet changes it for us it will be so much worse.
Wow,nice place.enjoy and take care.
Epic.😎🇳🇿
Next time your down there you should do a vlog on where the Otira hotel is at these days under Lester’s stewardship.
On a historical note, Christine Hannah, Bill’s wife and previous owner, died a few weeks ago.
Absolute legend Lester.
Thanks for the ride along, although there seemed to be an element of deja vu crept in....?
enjoy your vlog
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Bless you at 4:33.