Xmas/ New year 2018
Oops
26.12.2018 - 27.12.2018
15 °C
This year the Christmas present that Sal and I gave each other was a kayak trip on Doubtful Sound 31st December. There has been quite a few logistical hurdles to make this work out eventually. Once we had finished our Christmas meal and were sitting at home quietly we suddenly lurched into 'trip preparation' mode. This included me dismantling the Christmas tree that evening-never been that prompt before.
Boxing Day saw us loading the camper and getting ourselves focussed on the next 'task' at hand. Poor Maddie parked herself in the middle of all our clothing giving a very clear message that she would love to come with us, but going into National Parks means that just isn't possible.. Plan C was then to go to Andrea and Jeremy's with the van and leave from there and hopefully make Kaikoura that night. Huge amount of organising and cleaning up with left over food but we eventually dropped off our little urchin with Grana and got on the way.
It was very pleasant catching up with friends, mostly medical so getting positive feedback on my nose even though it still looks scary to me nonetheless. We left at about 7pm and got to Maungamanu at dusk. There were huge amounts of surfers there again, had a restless night and at 6am we left to have breakfast on the way. One big Oops however! As I was getting ready in the bathroom I pulled on the bathroom door handle, which promptly came off in my hand and flew into the toilet-needless to say the lid was up! Sal is such a trooper, with barely a blink of her eye she retrieved it and we were back on schedule. Her nursing experience came in handy again....That was a nasty lesson for me to learn, but the door has given us trouble ever since we've had the camper.
Breakfast was at Oaro, beautiful sunrise again. The road was lovely and quiet and I took the wheel for a while. It was fine and Sal survived ,much better this time. Cheviot was a quick stop where we 'admired' some interesting art work on their public toilets. Amberley we bought a very nice baguette and then into Chris's in Christchurch to drop off some things left behind. Then onto Methven to say a quick hello to a relative of Sal's after which we went into Staveley and walked to the Sharplin Falls and took photos of the river. Had a nice ice cream and admired a couple of lucky horses that are given broken ice cream cones from the dairy as a treat. We then took the scenic route to make to Geraldine by mid afternoon. We were feeling really tired but walked around town without making a single purchase.
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