Another brilliant day - blue skies, 26 degrees, wall to wall
sunshine – but perhaps a little more breeze today but not too much to worry
us. Going back a day or two, our informative boat captain yesterday explained that Captain Cook named part of the local waterway in 1770 after
Queen Charlotte the wife of George III. Today we breakfasted and left Jayne and Bill’s (Radfield House) lovely home in
Blenheim just after 0900. We went to the
centre of Blenheim, had a quick look and sit before attending morning service
at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. We
were made very welcome in true NZ fashion and felt uplifted after the hour’s
service. We then drove the 80 mile
journey to Kaikoura down the east coast of this island. We had a short break after an hour for a
drink and the last of Jayne’s delicious muffins.
We then arrived and checked in at the motel in Kaikoura
where we are staying the next two nights.
Tomorrow we are going on a whale watching trip from here and so we
walked into the village to establish where we need to be for the trip and then
had a look round the few shops. We overlook
the beach and the video shows the scenery we look out onto – we are between
mountains and the sea. We came back and
had a cup of necessary tea and later on we had a meal. We had read about a seal colony being on some
rocks at Kean Point near here and so after we had eaten we drove up to the
point and found some seals resting fairly near the road and we took some
pictures of the posers!
This one has a gull and a heron type bird for company!
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