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We took a two hr drive to Akaroa a bit of a long drive but the views once again were stunning up and over the hills winding little roads, nothing to stop you driving right over the edge, but to see the Eagles up in the cliffs and the birds of pray that swoop around hunting for food. Coming over the hills to look down on Akaroa from way up was just like looking at a large postcard the blue waters and the hills surrounding just don't look real but they sure are.
The Banks Peninsula landform is the result of powerful eruptions from three volcanoes, millions of years ago. Akaroa Harbour, Lyttelton Harbourand the surrounding bays with their spectacular indented coastlines, are the remaining legacies of Earth's fury.
Akaroa is a charming harbour village with a distinctive French flavour. The local Maori tribe had already discovered the beauty well before Captain Cook sighted Akaroa Harbour in the 1770's but it was in 1840 that the township was established by French settlers.
We had a wonderful lunch blue cod and chips washed down with a NZ beer it was a very hot day today sun was shinning like fire along the waters edge.
Neil drove a different road home so we see the views from many sides still way up high in the hills.
On the way back we went to Okains Bay where we went to a Maori & Colonial Museum which housed treasures including early Banks Peninsula heritage buildings and many exhibits the early fishing canoes, a lot of tools used by the Maori tribes men years ago. In the Colonial room there was old ovens and tin baths and bowls and many old singer sowing machines some were used to make saddles and riding tackle. Just a small place but interesting.
Tonight we had a BBQ cooked to perfection. XXXX
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