Brewing and walking

Our next stop was the airforce museum, which included some interestingly unusual exhibits, like this 1940s flight simulator.

That night we had booked to stay in Kaikoura, a little seaside town halfway between Christchurch and the top of the South Island. New Zealand in general is not densely populated, but the south island is something else. In 100 miles of driving we probably went through 4 towns.

Kaikoura was very pretty – here’s a shot of the beach and the mountains.

The view from the airbnb wasn’t bad either! Randomly, this was a spare room on a crayfish farm.

After driving through a lot more of nothing, we arrived at Picton for the ferry back to Wellington.

In other news, Ash had bought me a “brew your own beer” class for my birthday – you get 70 pints for £120 so its pretty good value. The beer is brewing for now, we will pick it up in a couple of weeks and post an update on how it turns out.

This weekend just gone, we walked the 10km Paekakariki Escarpment track, which runs along the top of steep hills looking over the coast to the north of Wellington.