CHRISTMAS TWENTY THOUSAND & TEN

Christmas Eve dinner. Thanks Matt & Vicky.

A perfect Christmas day.

The reason for the season, worship Christchurch Cathedral.

LAKE ELLESMERE WEEKEND ROAD TRIP

Our Saturday night site.

A busy Saturday afternoon, all there for jet and watersking.

A tranquil Sunday morning.

A very thin strip of land between Lake Ellesmere and the Pacific Ocean.

Grain & Silos

ANOTHER WEEKEND ANOTHER WEDDING

KARREN & BOB'S BIG DAY

Reid's Beach, Taipa.

Guests

The bride side.

Reception, Okahu Estate.

Auckland stopover, Aotea Square.

BEACH HOPPING

A trip away where we called into and walked on seven beaches between Christchurch & Motunau where we stayed the night.

The beaches went from sand to stone as you went north.

Purple Groundsel a common and very pretty coastal flower.

Our site on the Motunau river mouth.

Happy Hour

Very popular with the day fishermen.

Sunday lunch stop, looking at Motunau Island.

Tipapa Historic Woolshed, built in 1890.

Boards & bottles

Tipapa sheep

MY MUM'S FUNERAL & ME

Mum

30 October 1915

10 October 2010

North South Holiday Park corporate colours.

BEAUTIFUL BANKS PENINSULA

View from our site, Akaroa Top 10 Holiday Park.

After reading an article in Allan Dick's "NZ Today" we did the above trip which we found to be a very informative and scenic 5 hour journey delivering the mail and excellent value for money.

Pigeon Bay

Mailman Robin sorting for another delivery.

One of the few vehicles these roadside stall plants would see.

An upmarket letterbox.

St Lukes Anglican church, Little Akaloa.

Okains Bay with a good whitebait river.

Okains Bay Garage with a choice of petrol or diesel.

Wainui Bay stopover for the night.

Le Bons Bay entree.

Le Bons Bay from our overnight site.

Even here there was no escaping the earthquake.