Badly damaged in both the September and February quakes and over 6000 aftershocks the Point Pleasant yacht club had started to sink into the Avon estuary before being demolished in July 2011 after the June 6.3 earthquake
The small wharf area of the now gone Pleasant Point Yacht Club has already been taken over by the Pied Shags (cormorants).
It is under water now except for low tide. Note the dead pine tree in background. Many have died because of the salt water their roots are in.
Post the earthquakes land has sunk and in this case the track is below high tide level. It would have been at least 500mm above the highest tide level prior to the recent earthquakes that started on 04/09/10.
When I was a kid this bit of land in the foreground was level and extended at least three times further out, but after the earthquakes you can see the angle that land near the river slumped. We used to catch a lot of herrings (yellow -eyed mullet) here when I was a kid, hence the local name of Herring Bay. Across the river is the Bexley Wetlands.
A bit of the now demolished QEII (Queen Elizabeth II) Park running track in the "Gap Filler" on the old Deka site in New Brighton (last occupied by a charity barn before a major fire and subsequent demolition).
20130817_2457_1D3-400 The story of Christchurch (Day 229/365)
Many roads are closed all over eastern Christchurch as infra-structure repairs are carried out, whether it be water supplies, sewer repairs (as is the case here) or general road repairs, In just over two weeks it will be three years since the first earthquake happened (4th September...
All this is "red zone" after the earthquakes and has to be demolished. The roof of my "old" house (now owned by the government) can be seen between the third and fourth river-side houses.
Water from the river at high tide crosses Evans Avenue and enters a now abandoned "red zone" house via the garage. Next door (to the left) is the garage containing a car that was destroyed by fire last week (see earlier photos).
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "36 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "28 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "34 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "9 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "19 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "38 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. A New Brighton petrol station on Pages Road".
A photograph of pipes lifted out of the ground at a petrol station in New Brighton.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "25 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "22 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "21 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "8 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "30 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "32 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "6 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "11 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "16 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "4 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "24 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "27 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "26 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "12 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton, now red zoned land".
