Greymouth again

Greymouth again

Got some nice images of  some locals enjoying the westerly swell:

Greymouth

When we arrived the other day,  Greymouth was looking very grey, the tops of the surrounding hills shrouded in cloud.

Greymouth

But the weather did improve as the day wore on.   I went out to the mole at the harbour entrance, where there was some leftover swell from the strong westerlies of the previous few days.  The entrance is not very wide:

Greymouth

Just to give you an idea of the scale:  the white pole in the left of this picture is about 4 m high.

On that southern mole, some locals were enjoying the waves crashing in:

Greymouth

even if they had to run sometimes:

Greymouth

Some of the waves were quite large:

Greymouth

and prompted the youngsters to run a bit further

Greymouth

Eventually, possibly encouraged by me taking their picture, they ventured out to the end (as in the first shot).  I felt a bit nervous – people get washed off places like that, but all that happened was they got rather wet:

Greymouth bar

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