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Corner of Durham and Kilmore.
20130911_8095_EOS M-33 Another one ready to leave Another salvaged house from the Bexley (Pacific Park) red zone is on the truck and may start it's journey to a new location overnight. #4204
20131231_8511_EOS M-22 Forsyth Barr building for sale, under the archway Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. #4507
A couple of city blocks away from the now damaged Cathedral a temporary $4million cathedral has been built using large cardboard tubes and sheeting.
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.
These have been thrown in the Avon River
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrameny aka Christchurch Basilica
Football turf has now gone and the area fenced off again.
Is it to "ward" off evil spirits?.