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pfm Picture A Week (PAW) 2022

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Nikon D810 + Nikkor AF 300 2.8 VR. Manual exposure & Focus, 1/100 f3.5, 300mm, ISO3200. Hosted on Flickr, all rights reserved.

28 Oct 2022, Celebrity Eclipse, the second cruise ship to visit Wellington NZ - since March 2020 - approaches pilot pickup point at 0600hrs in Cook Strait outside Wellington Harbour. Wellington International Airport is in the foreground. At 317m and 122000 GT, she's a big one.

Post-Covid tourism is in tatters in NZ, after having shut itself off from the world in an attempt to control Covid. Tourism once provided circa 15% of GDP, NZ is very slowly rebuilding as we try to entice people back to visit. Alas for many businesses it's to little, too late. With a capacity of ~2900 passengers, in pre-Covid times we'd have seen the streets of the central business district clogged with happy tourists exploring, shopping, eating, spending. On Friday morning I saw few additional people on the streets, possibly put off by having to take an RAT before disembarking.
 
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