This is a shot of Lyttelton Harbour taken from the Summit Road. It looks a lot like the picture I posted earlier of Akaroa Harbour because the two harbours are part of Banks Peninsula.
Meanwhile, as I write this I’ve been watching a kiwi TV show called Pulp Sport that has been cracking me up. Video 1 (NSFW); Video 2.
Thickshake for lunch. Creamy.
This is the cathedral that sits in the centre of Christchurch. I think it’s obligatory that I post a picture of it.
In other news, I spent some time at the Avon/Heathcote River estuary today, so I had another opportunity to reacquaint myself with the local wildlife. Here’s the list for the day:
Black scaup, pied stilt, eastern bar-tailed godwit, spur-winged plover, pied oystercatcher, pied shag (successfully catching a fish!), white-fronted tern, white-faced heron, pukeko, Canada goose, paradise shelduck, black swan, mallard duck, red-billed and black-backed gulls.
The godwits are the most interesting of that lot. There weren’t a whole lot around today, but a lot more will probably arrive in the next few weeks. They fly in direct from Siberia in spring, then fly back via East Asia in autumn. That’s a long haul for a little bird — they’re probably not much bigger than a baby chicken.
Cornish pastie for lunch. Delicious.
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Took a trip out to the RNZAF museum at Wigram yesterday. It’s a pretty nice little museum with plenty of rare and interesting planes to look at. The lighting is very poor though, so very few of my photos came out. This one, of a Spitfire Mk XVI, was about the best of the lot.
Ham, cheese and pineapple sandwich for lunch. Though it was at a more upscale establishment so it was called a “Ciabatta Melt”. Tasty either way.
