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Monday was a windy and cloudy day to drive down the coast. It was rather uneventful – we did stop along the coast to eat our lunch while we watched the waves on the beach.

By the time we got to our motel in Dunedin, it was raining. Our host was friendly and talkative and wanted to give us lots of tips of what to do. We ate supper and then headed for a short drive to Tomahawk Beach. We were told we might get to see an Elephant Seal. There was a juvenile that was hanging around the beach and we might get lucky and see him. We did manage to find him. It just wasn’t very nice for a beach walk so our views weren’t the best.

Watch his nostrils!

We found some cool flowers at the roadside on our way back to the motel – very colourful!

Tomorrow we head to Queenstown.

We had another beautiful start to the day. Only a 2 hour drive today, so it was a leisurely morning. With clear blue skies and minimal clouds, we were on our way.

We had another view of Mt. Cook this morning.

Half way to the coast, we stopped at Lake Tekapo and had our lunch sitting on a bench at the side of the lake.

They also had unique public washrooms. The outside had an electric notice if it was occupied. As you entered, it told u how to lock the door and that you had a max of 10 minutes!

Onwards we went, stopping briefly in Fairlie for fuel and to buy a couple of their famous meat pies for supper. The store was packed!

Our stop for the night was a beautiful suite, complete with whirlpool tub! It was also much more reasonable in price compared to last night. Might have something to do with being on the east coast again. It’s definitely much more populated.

We’ll head south tomorrow to the town of Dunedin, our last stop before Queenstown.