The east coast came with its reputation intact - stunning coastline and warm summer days. The ride from Blenheim southwestish to Kaikoura was for most of the journey a visual joy but accompanied again with heavy traffic as this is the only highway or road for that matter south to Christchurch other than a diversion inland to Hamner Springs and the west cost via Kaikoura.
I found a sheltered night spot on the beach all by myself with the moon rising of the southern Pacific Ocean. I've noticed many new bird calls and one even sounding like an IPhone alarm tune repeating itself over and over. I knew it wasn't mine as I have only setup the IPad for Internet access and simply used a local phone card at the Telecom booths. I heard the same melody in another location the week before and I know it was not from another device nearby because I watched the bird making the calls (whoops a pun there).
Crocodile wood or that's what it looks like
The IPad has been an awesome travel companion for navigating my way around using the inbuilt GPS, planning the daily journey, learning about the various locations along the way, booking accommodation, managing budget, emails and of course, updating this blog. I can upload photos from the SD card or IPhone and resize them for the lblog and emails. No need for a laptop and it keeps my travelling weight down as well as it having longer battery life.
I may as well mention on the quirks here in the food regime. They sell orange cauliflower in one of the major supermarkets. I've cooked for many years, in fact for over ten years in an Adelaide restaurant but never had the need to serve up orange cusliflower as a dish, and could not imagine something like blue tomatoes in a salad. I would love to know the story as the store worker did ot know either. You could use it in a curry, though if it's flavour neutral.
Tonight's music - Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 45 in F# minor.
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