Punga Cove

Three months short of forty-seven years ago, Jude and I honeymooned at Punga Cove in the Marlborough Sounds at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island. You could only get there by boat then and the generator was switched off at ten. We stayed in an A-frame chalet like this:

This time we stayed in one of the newer units but the company was just as good.

Christchurch to Kaikoura

The hospital where Jude was born. Waikari, Canterbury. 

The view from there…

Paddling on the Kaikoura Coast. 

Seal Point…

Moeraki

The boulders…

Common Chaffinch striding out across our table…

Gorse and flax…

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The Mole, Port Chalmers

Tanker, MV Teroa, outward bound. On the right is Taiaroa Head which we saw in the previous post. We're on the other side of the harbour here.

New Zealand Fur Seal which came out of the sea to have a closer look at me.

 

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Otago Peninsula Gallery

Looking down the harbour towards Port Chalmers.

…and back up the harbour towards Dunedin.

Taiaroa Head—the end of the Otago Peninsula and home of an The Royal Albatross Centre. Albatross!

 

 

 

 

 

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Dunedin Gallery

Where Jude and I began together.

The city from Signal Hill…

Where Jude was baptized and where, with her, I experienced my first Evensong and my Anglican journey began although I didn't know it at the time…

The very font…

 

 

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Otago Fences

 

 

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St Clair beach, Dunedin

Last week…

 

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Invercargill to Dunedin

A beautiful drive via the Catlins.

 

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More Fences

 

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