Daily Photo – Main Street & Gimmerburn-Waipiata Road at dusk

With a few days free and a recent snowstorm having left much of Central Otago looking beautifully white, I headed off in search of snow photos. The plan was simple enough: drive until I found something interesting, stop far too often, and hope the weather cooperated. So, naturally, the first photo I post from the trip is a non-snow photo.

After spending the day criss-crossing the Maniototo, stopping whenever the light caught my eye, the landscape demanded another look or the snow got really interesting,  I eventually rolled into the tiny settlement of Waipiata. I found my accommodation, dumped my bags in my room, and immediately headed back outside. It had been a long day in the car and I needed to be outdoors for a bit. As dusk settled across the wide-open landscape, the last of the daylight softened the empty streets and surrounding hills, giving the little settlement the sort of quiet charm that only seems to appear at the end of the day.