Not much happened since we left Cobb Valley, we stayed at Mc Kee camp ground for two days and hung around Nelson. We skyped our friends that will be here in a few days, then went to a movie! We saw RED which was the perfect movie for a cloudy day, some light hearted action, humor, and romance! Also I still have a major crush on Bruce and Paul still has a remaining guy crush ever since the Die Hard's!
We started our drive to Kaikoura, the roads were pretty flat and straight we were shocked. Along the way we stopped at Pelorus bridge a scenic reserve. They had nice bathroom facilities and a hike that was 4hr return to a look out. We decided to see what this hike had to offer in views. We made it to the top in 35min the view was ok, but nothing to get to excited about. We were back in to our van in an hour, not a whole lot of views but a good workout for a road trip day.
We spotted a campground about an 1.5 hr from Kaikoura and decided to stay there for the night since it was a DOC and cheap. It was right on a beach, this beach was rugged and surrounded by pasture land and a salt works factory where they take the tide water flowing into the lake and use the sun to evaporate the water and farm the salt. It was pretty cool to see these 3-4 story piles of salt that they moved and loaded with front end loaders, lots of salt! We found a perfect spot with some bushes to block the afternoon sea breeze and had a relaxing evening sitting out in the sun the falling asleep listening to the ocean.
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