Cape Palliser

As part of a free festival in Wellington we saw a heavy metal band that sings in Maori called ‘Alien Weaponry’. They were pretty impressive, especially considering they’re all younger than 20.

Our next trip was a last minute weekend stay around the coast from Wellington. This bit of the coast is sparsely populated; here’s the view from the lighthouse at Cape Palliser.

There’s a big seal colony on the cape, where we saw about 200 seals. They were obviously pretty used to people being around because they didn’t seem to mind you taking pictures of them.

We stayed at a hotel on the coast and watched the sun go down with a couple of beers.

Finally, we took a hike out to the Putangirua pinnacles, which were created by different types of rock eroding at different speeds.