Today (Monday) saw us pack up and leave my sister’s and start our long trek home. It’s going to take us a week to get there but it is half way round the world I suppose. We are spending tonight in a campsite in Oamaru on the east coast then it’s on tomorrow to Christchurch for a couple of nights.
But lets go back and fill you in on whats been happening since we last posted in Dunedin. Saturday night was taken up with watching New Zealand beat Australia to win the rugby league world cup. That went down well as you might guess with our hosts!
On Sunday we went along to church, Riversdale Presbyterian. It was really good, very different to back home very informal and loads of kids running about everywhere. (don’t worry we’re coming back to hyde park!) One quite surreal part the service was that the woman leading the worship was from Dromore, yes the place in Co. Down. In the afternoon we headed to the beach, Oreti Beach near Invercargill. It was packed, a bit like portstewart strand on the ‘one’ sunny day of the summer back home. Wayne even manged to dig us up a shellfish from the beach but as it’s kinda illegal to keep them so he threw it back.
This morning it was an early start to get all our stuff packed up and into the spaceship again before heading off. Amazingly all our stuff fits in the cases still even with all that we seem to have bought along the way! After saying our goodbyes we made our way up through Dunedin and out onto the coast road in the general direction of Oamaru. We made a stop along the way to see the Moeraki Boulders. These are a collection of round boulders lying on the beach near Moeraki town. It’s easier to see than explain so here’s a picture.
Moeraki Boulders
That’s brings back to the campsite and us sitting out in the evening sun at nine o’clock at night, something tells me the weather’s not going to be good enough to do this next week back at home!?!
Jonny
