Windy in Wellington

Hi Guys!
This is my first crack at the blog. Bob has been primarily in charge of it. We have been under the gun having to pay at the Internet cafe and he has been having a really good time with it.

We have make our way out of Kaikoura which was brilliant as the locals say. We were leaving Kaikoura and a woman who runs the place suggested that we stop at Ohau lookout and waterfall. We stopped at the lookout and there were hundreds of seals and sea lions just lying around enjoying the day. There were a few playing in a crevasse in the rocks that had made a natural pool. Spend a good bit of time watching them. We went over to the waterfall thinking that not much could beat that. We did about a 10minute walk into the forest and came to a beautiful waterfall with a small pool at the bottom of it. There were about 20-30 baby seals jumping and playing have a gay ol' time for themselves. They were only about a foot away from us. Nice to see nature in the wild rather then an aquarium like we do at home.

Finished the day in Picton at the top of the south island, which we thought would be a small nothing town but proved to be quite a nice place. We spent the night and took the ferry boat over to Wellington the next day. The ferry was really interesting. We drove our Corolla onto the bay of the boat along with all the trucks carrying sheep and cows.. so it left this great urine smell absorbed into the apolstery of the car. Really an enjoyment. But as you have read, with our car that would take the cake wouldn't it?

We are in Wellington now and were a little shell shocked at the scale of this city. We have been surrounded by sheep, cows mountains and populations of no more then 100 that a "big city" (loosely termed) felt a little wierd. Hope all of you guys are doing well and enjoyed the well deserved warm weather.