We awoke to watch two cruise ships arrive in port; one
was a Silversea and the other a Princess Cruise liner which no doubt deposited a
1000 plus tourists in town so we decided to stay away and have a quiet morning
on site. Noel caught up with some blogging and Jennifer caught un with the
washing. It was a rather grey day today, not cold, and perhaps not the best day
for the tourists.
Around 5 pm after having a rather good lunch of lamb
chops and salads in an almost empty camp, site apart from an electrician
visiting the kitchen to disturb our cooking. Just before we went in to town an African
family turned up and we watched them striuggle to put up their new tent but in
the end we could not sit andf watch and so almost took over. They originated in
Uganda and he was farming in a town about two hours from Akaroa and was down
for the weekend, like many others who were arriving from Christchurch and
surrounds.
After the tent was up we headed down to the public
library for some free internet and catch up on a few things which we completed
around 7pm but then it started to rain and so rather than sit in the camp site
lounge again which we thought would be packed in view of the weather we checked
out the cinema and then watched a Spanish film, partly filmed in Southern Ireland,
we are not sure why? But it was a pleasant love story but perhaps to many
stories in the film.
Then back to the site and it was only 9.30 and too
early for bed so we went up to the lounge expecting a mass of people, but no,
there was one New Zealander who watched the NZ versus India cricket match and
the left us alone which was nice. Don’t like the look of this rain as we leave
tomorrow.
