We started with another round of Sam exercises, and packed up and drove a little way out of town to a Lavender farm, about 10am.
Bumblebees everywhere in NZ. I'm not really a fan. I walked down a path behind the farm and saw the lovely local river. Clear running water like you dont see in Australia.
Photographed some lichen. It's lichen heaven.
Then we went back into town to the tour headquarters and joined a group of Meridian engineers doing a team retreat activity. We rode in golf carts along railway tracks and through tunnels. 5 tunnels and back again. One tunnel is 1.5km long, and dug by shovel, and the track and tunnel are frequently blocked by land slides and trees, so it was all a bit of a pain to build and maintain, but stunning to ride on.
We had late lunch at a cheap local cafe, and I bravely ordered a paua fritter. A sea snail.
We visited an Alpaca farm on our way north again, this is the mums and babies which you can feed. They produce wool and knit jumpers and things on a knitting machine in the shop. Now have about 700 alpacas. They are nice animals.
And this is a few of the pets at our next airbnb. The hosts were out for dinner after we arrived, so even though it was just a bedroom in their home, we had it all to ourselves. We had a lovely dinner of salad and smoked salmon from the supermarket, and an early night.
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