Tag: Wharariki Beach

Grand sands (#5 in series: the “Windows Screensaver” beach)

Published December 14, 2024 by Pelidoug

Grand sands (#5 in series: the “Windows Screensaver” beach)

Wharariki is often cited as New Zealand’s most beautiful beach.

It is quite easy to reach, but its “remote” location – on the northwest “corner” of New Zealand’s South Island, – still keeps visitor numbers relatively low.

Screensavers are now out of favour, but for some years an image taken from a cave on Wharariki Beach was Windows 10’s default.

Thus – mostly, unwittingly – many millions of human eyes have (vicariously) looked across Wharariki’s sands to the Archway Islands.

Intertidal: #9 in series (“Windows 10 Beach”)

Published July 14, 2022 by Pelidoug

Intertidal: #9 in series (“Windows 10 Beach”)

Only a modest number of human feet have walked its actual sands, but every day of our so-called “21st” century many millions of human eyes see this singular beach, virtually.

An image of it is the “screensaver” viewed countless times by subscribers to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system.

Doubtless, most of those subscribers have no idea of what and where is this “iconic” beach.

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