Our trip in words and pictures: Blogging in the rain

Ok, ok even in wonderland it does rain sometimes, and the children have big fights on 4 hour drives, and even the parents argue sometimes, so you see, life will be life J

But at the moment it is only raining here in Karamea,. We drove up here on Michael and Glenis’ advice, Michael’s brother, John used to be principal teacher at the school here, and yes, Joe, who checked us in to Karamea motels was once his pupil. It’s a small world.

Yesterday was an amazing day at Punakaiki, here I go again with my sunshine stories, but it truly was.

Started with a mysterious road, Michel insisted we go off the beaten track and on some serious adventure, I wasn’t convinced, but turned out he was right. Parked the car and went on the track leading to Cave’s creek.

I didn’t want to mention LOTR but I will only once, I was Frodo, travelling with other heroes. Magical scenery. When we got back we went swimming in a lake, still get butterflies in my tummy thinking of it.
Sunset was enjoyed on the beach. Dramatic beach with huge rocks perfect for climbing. To Louis’ disappointment they tell us the beaches here on the west coast present danger for swimmers.

Big drive tomorrow, towards Golden Bay where we will celebrate Christmas, we keep forgetting it almost is… they don’t celebrate it the way we do here in NZ, but they don’t really need to, it’s summer J Somebody told us today that there is a trend nowadays that people celebrate midwinter “Christmasses” which makes sense to me.