This is posted a week late. I've been busy during the week too! There's something to do most nights and afternoons in Ilam apartments.. I'm climbing every monday, sometimes going for a bit of a local hike during the week, IES kids have a group dinner about once a week, the common room is always awake and Thursdays are Friday since I'm gone tramping most fridays!
The trip to Sawcut gorge was our first real trip out of Christchurch as a bunch of clueless Americans ("where are you from", "the states", "oh we thought so"... our accent is always a dead giveaway, though you can be Canadian once in awhile).
Polly found the hike in both of her guidebooks so we had to do it! As you'll see, there was a lot of river walking, which was great as it was a warm day.
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| The drive up, along the coast! Followed the tracks nearly the whole way in the few meters between he hills and ocean. |
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| This hundred year old bike was downtown Christchurch when I was here 10 years ago.. the earthquake moved them out to Kaikoura where the main business was apparently. This might have been the same guy we met years ago? |
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| The beach at Kaikoura. The sand is fairly large grained, hurt a little to run on. Awesome coastline and bay! |
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| Driving up to where we might have camped... there were a lot of bugs and people, so we opted for the coast. |
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| 50m from where we camped! There were dozens of these guys. Lots of tide pools and rock hopping |
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| This one's for you dad.. they were a lot quieter than the wind, but there were 1 or 2 overnight. |
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| ... I had a pack straddled between my legs the whole way. |
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| Ate breakfast in Kaikoura (I opted for my ramen over $12 bacon and eggs) then headed out to Sawcut gorge. Parked in a nice couple's driveway (only place to park for miles) and headed down. You have no option but to get wet as there's about 10 or 15 stream crossings! |
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| Image stitch of the gorge itself. Pretty fantastic as this is well over 100 ft tall |
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| ...More |
avocados...!
Panoramas!
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