We had planned bacon and eggs this morning but both of
us felt a little full after last night’s steak. So yoghurt and muesli it was.
We left the Motel around 0930 and headed west and drove by several lakes
including the fabulous Mount Cook Mountain range, photos to be added later, and
it was really a lovely drive. Today Jennifer did most of the driving but for a
coffee we stopped in a little place called Geraldine which clearly is a tourist
driven town, you can tell by the shops. Then
on for a while and we reached the outskirts of Christchurch where we
found a New World for topping up our food supplies and also a sandwich for
lunch which we ate in the car. The drive out to Akaroa took about 75 minutes
and is an interesting drive. Its flat and a little boring for about the first
45 minutes but then you start mountain climbing and the last 25 kilometres
takes almost 45 minutes again until we reached Akaroa. This town was
established by the French many years ago and all the street names are all
French street names. Akaroa came about as a result of a volcano being here
where the side collapsed andf the sea water poured in causing a lovely bay
which is visited by many cruise ships; in fact there was a big Celebrity ‘Solstice’
Cruise Lines ship in the bay when we arrived.
It took about 75 minute to get set up and ironically
they gave us the same site we had last time we came here about four years ago. For
dinner a nice chicken and ham salad whilst Noel had a scotch egg and washed
down with a nice cuppa sitting overlooking the harbour was great.
After dinner we went down town to check out the cinema
and decided we would go the next day. We watched the sun go down and it got
dark so we went back for a good night’s sleep.
