Kaikōura

The Hundalees were much more navigable this time. The two areas where half of the road had completely disappeared after the 2016 earthquake had been built up again and there weren’t as many road works.

We spent quite a bit of the day printing out papers from our lawyer, finding a JP to witness our signatures, and scanning it all back to the lawyer. We didn’t realise buying some land was such a mission these days!

The JP lived out on the peninsula. This is the view from his front steps. Beautiful.

When all that was sorted, we headed out to Donegal House and had an expensive drink for our ‘free’ accommodation. There must have been about 30 campervans, caravans and small rentals over night. Many of the campers had a drink or a meal at the pub.  I don’t think there were any other people there at all.

While we were there we had a call from Murray. He had seen my Facebook post and rang to say he too was in Kaikōura. So next day we went back into town to meet up with him. We stayed the night beside the Pier hotel. Twenty dollars but a fantastic site.

This was the view from our door.

And Murray shouted crayfish!