Two weeks into this journey. Feels like I've seen so much and been so many places already! I've taken a couple hundred photos.. Times that by 5.5. That's what I'll end up with when this is all over. Who wants to come to that slideshow? I've started to take fewer pictures though, I think because I've become desensitized to the beauty, it takes something really really wonderful to catch my attention.
Today Mom and I went up the Golden Bay to the very top of the South Island - the farewell spit. And up there, on the west coast across the spit is the Wharariki Beach. We had heard from the German couple that it was the prettiest beach with a seal colony and amazing rock formations, so we went to see! It's a 20 minute walk to the beach, through a hillside sheep farm, and out to a vast white sand beach. It was really windy and the waves were rough, so we didn't really lay out on the beach or go swimming. But we did see the seals! Lots of them. Little seal pups swimming and playing in a little pool by the rocks. They weren't shy at all! It was so fun to see them so close, and in their natural habitat. The mother seal was there watching over the pups, so we were careful not to get too close. We left after a little while, stopping at a big sand dune hill - there was a plastic sled thing that had been left there, so mom told me to give it a try. I sand sledded down the hill. Not as thrilling as I thought it would be. But it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. Back in the parking lot there was a colorful peacock hanging around. Sheep, seals, and peacocks - I think this is Neverland. (The Peter Pan one, not the Michael Jackson one)
Back toward Takaka, we stopped at Pupu Springs - the largest springs in Australasia, and the clearest water in the world! Pretty neat. And in Takaka we had more veggie soup, and then shared some delicious fish and chips at a little place in town - The Curry Leaf.
And now, mom is playing pool with the old Polish man and the old Dutch man. She's hot stuff here.
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