Lake Ellesmere

A friend and I thought we would like to photograph water today, and we travelled to Birdlings Flat. When we arrived there in the morning it was very flat light and a very flat sea. We decided to move on and discover what was at the end of the Kaitorete Spit.
This is a spit between Lake Ellesmere and the sea on Banks Peninsula.
It is long and narrow, in fact 25 km to get out there, and then walk the last bit.
By this time a sea fog had rolled in, and everything was still dull, and no poundng sea, and of course the tide was out. So our timings were all out.
This photograph is actually Lake Ellesmere, and you can not see very far because of the fog.

Just a little history on the spit (that I looked up)
It is a place that is very important to Maori, and they would have done a lot of fishing in the area.
Back in 2004, one of the country's most significant textile finds was unearthed - tiny fragments of a Maori cloak carbon dated at around 1500AD, making it two centuries older than any cloak ever before found in New Zealand.