We don’t see this very often!

It is not often that the roads around our part of New Zealand get iced up and require grit to be laid on them.  But the ice on the bridge over the Hutt River (the only exit from our suburb) obviously came courtesy of the Polar Blast that passed through the Wellington region yesterday. And today in the sunshine we could see why crossing an ice covered bridge is dangerous – some poor motorist had crashed into the bridge railings!  These have been removed, and replaced with temporary barriers.  We can only hope that the car didn’t end up in the river.

Sign on the bridge approach

Today in our part of paradise the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the snow on the low hills has gone, while on the higher  slopes the snow glistens white in the sun.  It is our own little slice of heaven.