Sunday, 23 December 2012

thursday 20th december - 24th december 2012

Just a quick one to catch up
nothing much just a few pics to make you feel christmassy, I went to Kathy amd Alex's for a pizza and a chat  me and mum went with Helen.
We had a good time, she has a lovely house, all the decorations are up it looked great, I went into the swimming pool whilst Helen and Kathy and mum spoke to each other.
This is there tree!














this is the local supermarket fed up of going for stuff so im not going again this year if i can help it, its christmas eve today so I will try my best to get you some pictures!

what do you want me to take pictures of at christmas? make it abit more exciting.







Merry Christmas to everyone it feels wierd having Christmas in the summer, although the weather has not been too fabulous since we got back from the south island, only 1 day of sun, up to now its been miserable, well I say miserable its been sunny most of the day but we have had the back of this cyclone from fiji so its rained most of the day.

We are spending christmas day at a friends house we are going for christmas dinner. I will let you know on the next post.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS xxx

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

wednesday 19th december 2012 christchurch pics :(

ill do this one now its really sad :(
there was once a church spire where the cathedral has collapsed
christchurch pics -
what a mess

this is a nice picture first though me and paula one of my friends cousins who i arranged to meet on the way to christchurch airport







tuesday 18th december 2012




monday 17th december 2012


like i said ill putt captions on tomorrow cause ive forgotten, ill be back onto it now because we have some wifi. just a picture of a pub below where we had a steak that was $17 for a kilo of steak! it was rather nice when you cut into it, it bled we had ordered medium and thats how it was.





sunday 16th december 2012 ARROWTOWN MININIG TOWN








saturday 15th december 2012 queens town gondola!

ill put captions in on these soon




friday 14th december 2012



thursday 13th december 2012

wednesday 12th december 2012

Monday, 10 December 2012

tuesday 11th december 2012

yes nige quiet day lol.





A few pictures from when we went to Franz Josef Glacier, on the way back to the hotel we went to look for some spoon billed pelicans or something. Nige here is another of the oysterpecking birds.

monday 10th december 2012 kaiteriteri beach boat trip





sunday 9th december 2012





saturday 8th december 2012 Harris Hill Farm

We drove towards Nelson to go find some accomidation, we managed to find Harris Hill which is a farm, they had lots of dogs, they were border collie dogs, they were working dogs. The big fluffy one in the picture is Bridget and the little one is Sam they were playing together.

                                                  One of the two horses was in the film Lord of The Rings film.
                                 This is daisy the pig, you give her your food scraps and she will happily eat them

Friday, 7 December 2012

friday 7th decmeber 2012

Left Kaikoura at 9.50am, it was a lovely day yet again, it took less than 2 hours to drive down to Hanmer Springs, we checked into the Tussock peak motor lodge.
It started to rain, we went too the hot pools at Hanmer Springs, it was great fun, it was still raining so it was good it cooled us down abit after we got into the hottest pool which was 40c it had beaches all round the side so you could sit down. It was great fun, we then walked round to the different pools which were different temperatures.



                                               Whos this Nigel?

thursday 6th december 2012

We went to Ohau Point to see a seal colony, which is 30kms north of Kaikoura.
Went back to Kaikoura for lunch at the Encounter.
Watched some whales from the car park by the railway station.
Went to a lookout point overlooking Kaikoura bay there was some wonderful views overlooking Kaikoura when we got there it was cloudy but the sun came out it was glorious.

Went back to the town centre and went for a drink in a pub called the sonic, I had a cider which was a pint, I think it was happy hour and the small ones were the same price as the small ones so shy not get a big one.
Mum and dad went to look in the Billabong shop, dad wanted a new bag so he could put his clothes in it because we only fought one suitcase and it was full. 
We then went to the Pier Hotel for tea, I had fish and chips mum and dad had lamb.




wednesday 5th december 2012

Woke up early for our jetstar flight to Christchurch, Kenny dropped us off at the airport, we checked the bags in then we went straight to the gate.
We got on the plane it took the plane about 1hr and 45mins to fly to to Christchurch.
When we landed in what very hot and sunny, we rung the car hire place up then we went to the "ace" car rental to pick the car up.
We went to Cheviot on the way for lunch, there were some magpies.
We set of north to Kaikoura, we stopped at Cathedral Cliffe, and Gore Bay. We got into Kaikora at about 5pm Then booked into the hotel in Kaikora, then we went to the whaler for steak and chips, then had a drink.
We then went to the see the seals at the beach there wasnt many to see there were only 4. We watched the sun go down whilst watching the seals.
The sun disappeared behind the mountains that had snow on them which was strange because it was sunny and warm where we were.



                                          this is the cathedral gully as you can see.

We arrived in Kaikora at about 5pm