Today we headed for Kaikoura had some very tasty freshly caught fish with chips and witnessed some of the earth quake damage to the roads and bridges. A lot of repairs have been made to the roads already. We played a round of a 18 hole crazy golf which was fun and stopped on side of road to watch the Fur Seals playing and swimming. This I could do all day! There were also black oystercatchers and herons. It is sad to see the shops that are still closed and bui...

Back at Bec and Robs for a week before we return home we set to washing all our holiday clothes. Beautiful and sunny and hot here somall dried very quickly. We played croquet and headed down to beach on .robs return from work for some body surfing. The beach is a large sandy ba backed by dunes and pine forest and stretches for miles with horse, bike and walking tracks.  There are are lots of birds in the forest and dunes as well as oystercatchers, terns and gu...

Today we return to Pegasus back to,our daughters and son in law to be. Firstly we took Becky And Tom to the Glacier as they just had to see it. A beautiful sunny hot day, windy but just lovely. As we approach the mountain peaks and Mount Cook village again Hooker Valley has the clouds and Tasman sunny. On reaching the view point we had it all to ourselves. The large icebergs which were right at the glacier front yesterday had moved right down the lake, due to,...

Today was another disappointment for our second helihike booked. Cancelled due due to high winds and a storm coming in for the next few days. We try to raise our spirits and say it was meant to be.So in beautiful sunny weather we head to the White Horse Campground which is the the nearest Point to park for the 5km Hooker Valley Walk. The Walk had been recommended to me and I really wanted to do some walking which we had not had a chance to do as of yet. On arr...

Well what a treat we had in store at Mount Cook.We left Otago which is somewhere I could have stayed a week to spend with the birds, Seals and Penguins but we had to head to MC National Park, which I remember nearly taking out of our trip, so glad we didn't!! Leaving Otalo we called in at the Dunedin Railway station, shot a few pics and took a look inside, We then headed for the Moeraki Bolders which were quite something to pop and see if you are passing. W...