Tracy and a Fur Seal

We stopped for lunch at the small coastal town of Kaikoura which is famous for whale watching and dolphin swimming. At the end of the peninsula is a seal colony and I took a photo of Tracy sat next to a fur seal who got quite uppity and snarled at Tracy making her jump.

In the afternoon we continued south through the canterbury plains which are the flat farmlands surrounding Christchurch. It is actually very hilly in parts but compared to the Alps which run across the horizon I suppose it could be called flat. It is also very, very green. Sometimes here I get the feeling that nothing is quite real, the sky seems impossibly blue, the sea seems too green. Well it was great to spend a couple of hours driving through such wonderful, and deserted, scenery. Sorry if I seem carried away here!