First of all New Zealand is quite a scenic place that is full of nature depicted by its greenery mountains and of course the lovely beaches. Afternoon on such a beach is wonderful to have as the colours it present are soothing to the eye. There is no way on doesn't want to come back and back again as it has got the power of relieving you out of stress disturbance chaos and fill you up with nature joy. No way could had you started drawing the scene as the atmosphere would had presented such a class to take of eye from it.
I agree about the soothing affect the whole expansive scene had on us.
As to painting, I have painted some scenes of New Zealand, and some of them are coming up soon in following posts.
Well willing to see them quite soon. They for sure will be thriller. Anyways the greenery too just pumps in the freshness in you. I hope to see some of the greenery in the next few blogs soon. Also where else have you been wandering just catching your art in the kiwi land??