Hot hot hot again😎😅

We headed South along the coast road from Kaikoura towards Christchurch. We were going to Cathedral Caves and it should have just been a short journey. We hadn’t allowed for the road repairs. There are major works all around Kaikoura in every direction, repairing the road and rail network destroyed by the earthquake.

They have put new bridges over rivers, new tunnels through the rocks and new crash barriers. The traffic is controlled in relays for miles as there is little 2 way traffic enabled as yet.

I didn’t mind as wherever you stop its along the coast and you can gaze at the sea. We saw boats chasing whales and dolphins flipping out of the sea racing along with the boats. The waves were crashing on the rocks as it was high tide and very beautiful.

As we got nearer to the cathedral cliffs we stopped at a tiny town called Cheviot and

The Bay was called Gore Bay and we parked the car along side the sea. The surf was terrific and noisy. We stayed ages watching it and sitting in the sunshine.

Do you know we saw hundreds of white butterflies in this area. Even as we travelled down the roads they were all around. I tried to photo them but they were too fluttery.

The way back led up over the top of those white cliffs and there was a viewing place to see Cathedral Cliffs. They did look like organ pipes I thought.

Then we hoped to go further to Port Robinson, but it was a gravel road 35 km so we didn’t bother!

Back in Kaikoura we stopped for an ice cream.

We’re now sitting in the shade looking at fluffy clouds and mountains behind our motel. And eating our dinner outside.

Bad news when we got back to the motel, they’d had a power surge and we have no hot water in our room, cant be fixed until tomorrow and all other rooms are full, oh noooooo

 

I hope you like my photos, especially look tomorrow as we are booked in to go whale watching ….I’m so excited!