Rivers

Stop
your snivelling
creek - bed:
come rain hail
and flood water
laugh again.

Hone Tuwhare.

Come Rain Hail, Haiku. 

More on Hone Tuwhare and his work please visit:
http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/tuwharehone.html 

The poem has been referenced from Page 122 Gordon Roberts and Brian Turner "New Zealand High Country Four Seasons."

Photo above from Frank Erceg Archive. Location unknown, could be the Arawata? 

Campfires

Aloysius Erceg. Photo: Frank Erceg

"There is a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around.
When you go far,
far beyond,
out across the netherlands of the Known,
the din of human static slowly fades away,
over and out."

Rob Schultheis, Fools Gold: Lives, Loves, and Misadventures in the Four Corners Country.


http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wilderness

Aoraki Mount Cook

One of Frank's 35mm colour slides: Aoraki Mount Cook, South Island New Zealand.  Height 3,754m = 12,316.3 feet. The photo was taken from Hooker Valley and below is a map showing the location.

Many of Frank's slides and negatives are not named and some have been scanned wrong way round. I initially thought it might be Mount Aspiring, but when I did a search on the internet I could clearly see the outline of Aoraki but that it just needed to be flipped. And when I did there it was! Our tallest mountain. 

Map from:

http://nzfrenzysouth.wordpress.com/e5/