We leave Akaroa tomorrow for Kaikoura and then the North Island and we haven’t booked anything yet in the way of ferries or accommodation or even the Whale watching experience. So today is the day that we must do all this.
Whilst we were having breakfast in the kitchen this morning we talked to a German couple who live on the Canary Islands and they were saying how much they had travelled in the last year. They were of a similar age to us and also camping in a tent unlike the rest of the people in their big motor homes. This got me to thinking how much we had been away in the last year and it turned out to be eight and half months. I wonder if we can get Tax relief.
We spent a couple of hours, it took so long as the connection was slow, and then had booked our Blue Bridge Lines ferry crossing of the Cook Straight and also a Studio flat in Kaikoura, similar in Blenheim and of course our boat trip Whale watching.
We spent a certain amount of time reading and decided that there was no advance packing that we could do which would give us an earlier start and so we did not bother.
As the evening approached we drove off to where the lighthouse is to get a view and read our books, only twenty minutes later the St John Ambulance and Fire Engine turned up for some practise stuff (it must be Monday, meeting day in England!)
Let’s hope it does not rain tomorrow when we have to pack up the tent.
