Will be interested to read your thoughts on Christchurch from when you left until now. There seems to be a lot of planting & wetland restoration in my news feeds - I could be out most weekends if I chose to! Don't know if the people of Christchurch are especially active or if it's a reflection of the subjects/groups I follow 🤔 and the earthquake aftermath certainly opened up opportunities that might have been ignored if not for the determination of residents to do something worthwile & of benefit to both nature & humans 🤗
I did, had to stay in a hotel but it wasn't too expensive, a micro-room only as wide as the length of the bed. I've stayed in similar before and am quite happy in that kind of space.
That is one of the things that I noticed too. There's space for nature in Christchurch now in a way that there wasn't when I was living there. It isn't only areas affected by the earthquake either, I was on the University campus and there are some riparian plantings (although in other places there's still grass right up to stream bank). There has also been a lot of work in the Pūharakekenui/ Styx catchment and probably others I don't know about.
Will be interested to read your thoughts on Christchurch from when you left until now. There seems to be a lot of planting & wetland restoration in my news feeds - I could be out most weekends if I chose to! Don't know if the people of Christchurch are especially active or if it's a reflection of the subjects/groups I follow 🤔 and the earthquake aftermath certainly opened up opportunities that might have been ignored if not for the determination of residents to do something worthwile & of benefit to both nature & humans 🤗
PS - hope you found a bed!
I did, had to stay in a hotel but it wasn't too expensive, a micro-room only as wide as the length of the bed. I've stayed in similar before and am quite happy in that kind of space.
That is one of the things that I noticed too. There's space for nature in Christchurch now in a way that there wasn't when I was living there. It isn't only areas affected by the earthquake either, I was on the University campus and there are some riparian plantings (although in other places there's still grass right up to stream bank). There has also been a lot of work in the Pūharakekenui/ Styx catchment and probably others I don't know about.