Rangitata

I am now going to put up a V hut on the country that I took up on the Rangitata, meaning to hibernate there in order to see what the place is like.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

A few days later he and his wife set sail on a cruise from Tilbury to New Zealand aboard RMS Rangitata.

The occasional horse’s head in the marital bed 2006

The ship was the RMS Rangitata and the Edens 'cabin steward was John Prescott, who sometimes fought on-deck boxing matches for the entertainment of the passengers, sometimes won them, and sometimes was presented with his prize (beer or wine) by the ex-prime minister or his wife.

Prescott after a resignation 2006

The rivers that formed these fans, the Rangitata, Rakaia, Ashburton and Waimakariri, arise in the Southern Alps and are generally wide with multiple braided channels threading between semi-permanent gravel islands.

Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands 2007

I have little to tell you concerning the Rangitata different from what I have already written about the Waimakiriri and the

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

As its name imports, it has some wood, though not much, for the Rangitata back country is very bare of timber.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

A short time after I got up to the Rangitata, I had occasion to go down again to Christ Church, and stayed there one day.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

I had been coherently drowned in the Rangitata; and when he heard us coo-eying he was almost certain that it was the ghost again.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Well, we had followed these directions for some way, as far in fact as the terrace, when, the river coming into full view, I saw that the Rangitata was very high.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

This river was now a brawling torrent, hardly less dangerous to cross than the Rangitata itself, though containing not a tithe of the water, the boulders are so large and the water so powerful.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004