Update from Gisborne

And, for those of you who have been concerned about us...





Thurs, 27 Sept 07

We are sitting in a small internet cafe in Gisborne (east coast, north island). We are currently enjoying a cold rainy spell due to Antarctic air coming up from the south. This has limited us to snuggling up in our campervan and catching up on movies and other things ;-)

We will head north from here to Tolaga Bay to check out the rest of the east coast that we had bypassed when travelling through Rotorua down to Napier.

Monday sept24th-07

We are sitting in our wee campavan with an other amazing view of another Eastcoast beach. This place is called Waipatiki Farm Beach Camp.

And yep the chickens are fighting at the van door for table scraps. There is only one other family tenting here. Earlier a couple of surfers were out in the waves, but now we have the beach to ourselves.
We don’t have internet here (or hardly anywhere actually) so if you have checked out our blog and were thinking we have been tardy with up dating it that is why. So on a lazy, rainy day like this afternoon we will just have to work on emails and the blog and then get it off when we can.
We are just loving being by the Pacific Ocean again even though it is quite cool right now here…It was definitely wishful thinking that made me bring all those bikinis and sundresses!


We have found some real treasures as far as camper sites:

Castlepoint where the lighthouse is and Captain Cook’s Castle rock we stayed 4 days and saw glorious sunrises each morning. We hiked for hours along the bay and over the high ridges. Took at least 700 photos, all keepers Saw seals sunning themselves on the rocks at Christmas Bay.(Christmas seals).

More switchback mountain roads with another Kiwi traffic jam,freshly shorn sheep slowly meandering along to another grassy hillside. The best lawn mowers in the country.

Then a sign to let you know you are passing the place with the worlds longest place name. “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu” took longer to try to read the name than to pass.

Wellington, what a lovely city with its tunnels and trams and winding streets up towering hills and back down to the bay filled with yachts. 360views from mount Victoria.
Modern and old, culture and arts, and a bigger Tango scene than Montreal yet it seems smaller than Halifax. A condensed San Francisco. Very colourful and livable with its swimable beaches and abundant watersports.