The pictures here are from a visit to Aramoana in December of 2004.
Aramoana is a tiny, wind-swept settlement north of Dunedin, on one side of the main channel out of the harbour area. Sadly it's best known for a mass shooting many years ago. It has the air of isolation that makes it easy to understand how someone can go quietly mad.
Aramoana is on one side of the mouth of the inlet that runs up to Port Chalmers and thence to Dunedin harbour, some distance away. Across the way is the tip of the Dunedin Peninsula, which has a breeding colony for New Zealand Fur Seals, penguins, and the Albatross colony. The bay itself has a long man-made finger of land stretching out in its midst.
One half of Aramoana Beach.
Looking across the inlet from the sea to the Dunedin Harbour, with the Albatross colony across the bay.
Horses on the beach.
A seal playing in the water. There are a fair number here, with a breeding colony on the peninsula across the bay.
Fur seal in the water.
Seal amongst the seaweed.
Fur seal relaxing on the shore.
Fur seal.
Fur seal.
Terns flying over the water…
…and landing.