Today we had a lovely lie in then went on a walk outside aidens house. as they are in the hills they like right next to a national park which we had a fun 2hour wander around. after lunch we went to cable beach which was a lovely stoney beach with a estury on the other side. spectacular photos and realy nice area. we had another lovely tea and pudding and compared travling photos, stories and music over a bottle of wine. a really lovely night and a shame we have ...

today we left kaikoura and headed to a seal colony where we had a 5min break to see them then headed up to picton where the groups split, those going north and those doing the south island (us) we then headed through lots of vineyards and tree plantations to get to Nelson. we saw a lovely rainbow on the way there but the rain soon stoped. we arrived and had a wander around before meeting up with Aiden and going back to meet Sally and the family. we had a yummy me...