After a bacon buttie which we think we deserved after a rotten night we set off on the coast road. We detoured to Tauranga Bay to see the long established, breeding fur seal colony that has been there for years. There is a paved and fenced walkway to the top of the hill where you can look down over the rocks to see the seals. I think they must have known we were coming armed with cameras hoping to catch them 'au naturel'. We saw about 4 in total and they were hardly discernable against the rocks! The rest had 'gone fishin'
I hoped to get a photo of Steve thumbing a lift to London while leaning on the lamppost but either that was exceptionally tall or Steve is more vertically challenged than I thought he was. There was no way I could fit them into the same frame. A job for photoshop me thinks.
Time to cut across country to the Wairau Valley. The landscape changed from the mountains of the glacier highway to the rolling hills that we had first seen in South Island. The nearer to our destination we got the wider and flatter the valley floor became as it followed the path of the river. There were acres and acres of vineyards as far as you could see. I'm sure that the amount of grapes these vines produce would make enough wine to fulfil the whole worlds requirements.
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