White Rock, an Eastern surf beach that offers a brutal, pounding coastline of savage rock.

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White Rock

Out past Martinborough on the lower East side of the North Island is a wild yet well known streatch of coast called White Rock. The area offers excelent surf to people far and wide and the DOC hutt provides a welcomed shelter.

These images are all origionally black and white although some have been coloured for effect. More photographs for this event can be found at www.chillivodka.com.

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Cloud Lines

behind the hills and the offshore breeze strengthens, long fingers of cloud are dragged across the sky, groping into the East with the dying rays of the sun.
01 May 2003

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Long Branch

Perspective plays a major role in many of my images. I like the idea of being able to present an everyday scene from a unique point of view, my perspective. This image was taken using a wide angle lense and looking down a long branch.�
15 May 2003

Beach Bones

The landscape at White Rock is extremely rugged an unforgiving, scattered boulders and broken rock offer habitat to only the hardiest of organisms and all about are the aged remains of those that didn`t make it.�
09 May 2003

One of those funny steel balls...

Someone bought a set of these balls (part of that French game) to our camping trip out at White Rock.�
01 May 2003

Al encounters the sea

Well, if it was going to be anyone that got wet it was going to be Al. His numerous flirtations with the rather boisterous waves inevitable ended up with him getting drenched from the waist down.�
09 May 2003

Cabbage Tree

On the edge of the world, the vast ocean stretching out before us and the horizon broken by the strange yet familiar outlines of the cabbage tree. These rather bizarre trees are natives here and grow all about, perhaps they like the salty air?�
09 May 2003

Waters Edge

The steep beach was presented magnificent, thunderous surf that charged up the beach in a foaming surge. The bubbles would then pause, swirl briefly before being dragged back into the tumult of the waves for another round.�
09 May 2003

Sea Cow

I'm sure this is not the standard type of sea cow. I've never seen an animal like this so close to the sea and on such a rugged, inhospitable beach. This calf is getting rather desperate and is gnawing on some seaweed, nutritious.�
09 May 2003

Jane - Sitting on WHite Rock

High on the pinnacle of the great White Rock, Jane looks out to sea. This odd lump of limestone stands alone on a rough and wild piece of coast.�
15 Sep 2003

White Rock Lines

Far out to sea the submerged fracture of limestone thrusts up out of the seabed. As it heads out from sore it sinks below the surface and disappears from view.�
09 May 2003

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