Howdy All! It has been a while, sorry about that. I have been doing a whole lot of nothing interesting for a couple of weeks. Well...sorta.
Since the last post, I helped put together 1,700 CD cases and stuff them with CDs for a group called The Harbour Union. They are a compilation of several Kiwi bands that were all affected by the major earthquakes so they got together and made a CD that is kind of about the quakes. They are selling it and giving 100% of the proceeds to help rebuild Lyttelton. They gave me free tickets to get into the first concert on their national tour as a thanks for helping them out and I must say that the concert was pretty darn cool. :)
But what you guys really want to know about are all of my adventures right? I went camping this weekend in our super cool tent complete with front porch!
We spent 2 nights at a campground called Puhi Puhi which was just outside of the beautiful town of Kaikoura and at the foothills of the Kaikoura Mountain range. W got up at 5:45 am so that we could watch the sunrise at Seal Point on Saturday while we hung out with some really smelly fur seals.
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| The reef flats of Seal Point at 6 am |
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| Foothills to the Kaikouras |
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| TheKaikouras in all of their beauty |
We spent the morning looking at really cool intertidal marine creatures and then entire day hiking around the whole outside of the Peninsula and then straight across the middle again to get to a road that could take us to our car. I would love to share all 200 pictures with you but....I'll just share a few.
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| A Sea Anemone! |
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| Pretty starfish, no? |
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| If you can see all those tiny dots along the flat there then you will be happy to know you are looking at one of the largest fur seal mating colonies in the world |
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| South Bay |
We were pretty exhausted after our full day of hiking, so on Sunday we treated ourselves to a couple of hours in the hot pools of Hanmer Springs. It is a small inland town that sits over a bunch of natural hot springs that a resort has taken control of. It was only about 13 degrees C outside but we were sitting in 40 degree c water. It was nice and toasty in there.
Well that is all for now. I am home and ready for another week of classes followed by a weekend of learning (yupp another field trip).
I'll catch you later
We spent 2 nights at a campground called Puhi Puhi which was just outside of the beautiful town of Kaikoura and at the foothills of the Kaikoura Mountain range. W got up at 5:45 am so that we could watch the sunrise at Seal Point on Saturday while we hung out with some really smelly fur seals.
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