Week 73 "Deloittes"

I enjoyed having coffee with a friend this week, and it was a nice opportunity for a walk with our cameras. We left the cafe and wandered along the river to the new terraces. The river bank opposite what was "The Strip" has been landscaped, with steps right down to the water. (How can the council allow that when it insists (rightly IMO) on fences around swimming pools?)  We met a group of men who were feeding eels meat on the end of a stick. They feed the eels quite often. Now the eels are so tame they swim up when the men tap on the edge of the steps! They told us the construction workers further up the river do it too, and there can be 10 or 12 eels waiting. One man said he always uses a stick now, because he was bitten by an eel once and it hurt! I love it when these nice encounters happen while out with a camera. You never know who you will meet or what you'll learn - tame eels, with blue eyes.

The Deloitte building is on the corner of Gloucester Street and Montreal Street, on an odd wedge shaped corner. I like the shape, but better then that I really like the aqua coloured glass facade. I don’t know if the glass moves but it looks like sails, and gives a lovely effect with the changing light. I’ve only shown a little area, but the building has a wavy frontage and from the diagonally opposite corner it looks really interesting. It was one of the first commercial buildings completed during the rebuild, post earthquake, and seems to be popular with photographers.