7/11/2016 Monday
It's hit the road trip again! We had avocadoes and tomato paste soup for breakfast and off we go again! The journey from Christchurch to Kaikoura took us about 4.5 hours and very unfortunately, the weather was so gloomy and drizzling the whole journey.
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| Gloomy gloomy weather |
And we arrived at the Point Kean Seal Colony and guess what..
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| Someone is sunbathing on the rock |
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| Spot the seals |
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| Hope I don't scare them away |
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| OMG, look that this lazy fatty seal. Sooooooo cute. Just sleeping carefreely on the grass |
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| OMG I'm like so near to him..I almost wanted to poke him and said Oii wake up lah..don't sleep anymore |
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| See how cute it is.. Just want to squash it |
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| Us and the lazy seal |
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| One more |
We didn't plan for any whale watching trip and hence after spending about 2 hours looking at the sleepy seal, we headed for lunch. We drove along the West End and found there are many F&B along the streets. We parked our car and just randomly choose one fish and chip restaurant and it turned out to be the best in town yet again.
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| Shared a set of fish and chips at the Coopers Catch |
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| Seafood Chowder |
After a heavy lunch, Jou called to the Cellar Door at Blenheim to check out what time they close and very unfortunately as well, they close at 4.30pm on that day and we could not make it anymore by the time we got there.
Along the way, we came to this Lavendyl Lavender Farm but again so unfortunate of us today, it is not the lavender season :(
If not mistaken, we paid NZ1 or 2 to the owner and we just walk around the garden to get some lavender feel even though it is not the season.
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| Super friendly Golden Retriever who knows how to greet customers |
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| and very cheeky as well. After a few performance, she decided to hid in his kennel |
We then wandered around the garden to take some pictures.
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| This is lavender- pre blooming.. just imagine all of them is in purple |
As the day is getting late, we decided to check in to our motel. Jou chose this perfect motel at Admirals Motor Lodge at Middle Renwick Road in Blenheim. Super recommended to stay and for those who plans to go to the Blenheim.
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| 1 Queen size and A single bed for the 2 of us? I took the single bed and slept soundly throughout the night. The next best accomodation after the Victoria Hotel at Dunedin |
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| It has a small kitchen as well |
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| The best is, we just parked our car right in front of our door |
We then drove to the nearby Countdown to get some alcohols and snacks for dinner.
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| Dinner is served! We cooked instant noodles, and our take away pasta and mushroom soup |
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| and not forgetting the gigantic strawberries..ahh finally |
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| And the main guy- yummy La Vie and a bottle of Chardonnay |
We slept early as we planned to go to the vineyard the very next day. Praying hard for a good weather tomorrow.
Discover the rest of my New Zealand Trip as follow :
New Zealand Day 15 : End of New Zealand Trip
New Zealand Day 14 : Last Day in Christchurch and Scared Scriptless
New Zealand Day 13 : Pancakes Rocks and Blowholes
New Zealand Day 8 :Tunnel Beach, Dunedin Market and Moeraki Boulders
New Zealand Day 7 : Shot Over Jet Boad Ride and Dunedin
New Zealand Day 6 : Milford Sound
New Zealand Day 5 : Lake Tekapo to Queenstown
New Zealand Day 4 : Lake Pukaki, Base of Mount Cook, The Church of the Good Shepherd and my virgin experience staying in a backpackers
New Zealand Day 3 : Akaroa Day Trip
New Zealand Day 2 : Christchurch
New Zealand Day 1
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