Today was a day of deep meditative reconciliation. Well actually today was a day for doing almost nothing as the weather was not at its best. We had torrential rain and gale force winds all night and well into the afternoon.
We headed down to the beach to see how high the waves were with the strong winds, there were some pretty impressive breakers coming in, definitely the sea was not as inviting as it was a week or so ago.
Next we headed off to the National Kiwi Centre as they have a couple of kiwi birds there; you normally can’t see them in the wild as they are both shy and nocturnal. Unfortunately we couldn’t see then in the centre either, they were well hidden (assuming they were there in the first place!) So all we saw at the kiwi centre were eels and whitebait, not too impressed!
Next stop was the grocery store to restock on supplies, also a little comfort food to go with afternoon coffee given that it was a miserable day!!
The wind and rain finally stopped around 5PM so we walked across the road to the beach for some exercise. The beach is a designated penguin breeding colony, but again we had no luck seeing any of the elusive creatures; however Lyn did find a lump of Jade on the beach.
Tomorrow we hope to see the glaciers, but given our luck today the thing may have melted by the time we get there.