Monday 28th January 2019

Ok. Today was a long drive South through the Canterbury plain. It’s VERY FLAT and VERY LONG. Quite repetitive and you need a drone for photographs. (Yes. May buy one!!!).

Then arrived at –

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Which I thought would be a bit of a let down but was very surprised to find it was quite a little gem for lunch –

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Started as a whaling station but I think money has arrived. The park was lovely –

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Even the view to the container port wasn’t bad –

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Town centre –

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After this we travelled down to Oamaru to see –

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They come into their burrows at dusk having spent all day at sea. At £50 to get a seat we decided a penguin is a penguin in this case and had a walk about the town.

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Strangely Victorian/ Georgian architecture –

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Absolutely fabulous gift shop ( secret photo behind a pillar when the proprietor wasn’t looking ) –

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Then into a stranger world –

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And fishing on dry land –

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Good. BBQ Was good

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