After yesterday’s exertions and with the sky overcast we had a really lazy morning then drove down to the lake to have lunch in the drizzle watching the Kiwis carrying on regardless. One family were jumping off the boat jetty into the lake, which, if yesterday’s stream water was anything to go by, would have been cold. The kids were having a right good time and eventually managed to convince mum to join them, which she did. As the Kiwis would say ‘good on her’.
Next a family arrived in the small fishing boat. Dad slowed the boat towards the shingle beach and eldest son, aged all of 8, stood on the bow timing his leap ashore to perfection to keep his feet dry then pulled the boat up with a rope.
As the drizzle eased a small coach arrived labelled ‘tours for matures’ and 15 or so silver seniors, all wearing name badges, slow disembarked, wandered to the end of the jetty, took some photos and wandered back.
With lunch finished we serviced the van then headed off to Nelson where we had a dinner date with Glenn’s cousin David and his wife Sarah. Once the water had heated we stopped for showers for a bit of a spruce up then called in for another cuppa at McDonalds to post the last four days of the blog.
Early in the evening we arrived at David and Sarah’s house, which is up a hillside overlooking Tasman bay and spent a very enjoyable night dining on the deck, drinking great NZ wine, admiring the views of the surrounding hillsides, watching the tide come in and catching up with each other’s lives and families. Once encourage inside by the insects we discussed the area and planned an itinerary for the next few days.
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