Scenes from New Zealand
Setting for Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge
“The Green Dolphin was starting in toward the coast. William, leaning over the bulwarks, felt his heart beat high with excitement. This was New Zealand, this was Aotearoa, the Long White Cloud.
They were approaching Cook Strait, and he could see both the islands. He was glad there were two of them, not one. It was more homelike, somehow. Wellington harbor was not likely to bear much resemblance to St. Pierre, yet it would be a little like. All harbors have the same welcoming arms for the wanderer, promise the same shelter, have the same small ripples slapping musically against the hulls of quiet ships. Always the bells seem ringing on the land, and the air is all movement with the wings of gulls…”
🌿 Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
Welcome to a photographic tour of New Zealand!
There are so many breath-taking spots in New Zealand from the Pacific Ocean lapping up to its long white coasts, to the dramatic mountain scapes and primeval forests and rivers. Hopefully this tour will give your imagination a bit of help as you read about the drama of Marianne, William, Tai Haruru and the others in Green Dolphin Street!
“…Slowly, with sails reduced, they glided nearer. It was very early, and sea and sky alike were tinctured with rose and amethyst upon the blue. It was a strange, primordial landscape that William looked upon. The strong outlines and the cool colors of a clear dawn seemed inherent in it. The harbor was ringed round with mountains, the nearer saffron-colored, streaked with the colors of morning, shining here and there with patches of pure gold where the sun lit the gorse, the great peaks behind them a clear, translucent green reaching up to the wonder of the snow…”
The Sea
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