28 degrees, sunny
Fantastic lovely clear day today so we went for a circular walk to the headland at Point Kean, around the headland and back across country to Kaikoura.
Past the town edges the coastline changed from stony beach to hard packed dried mudflats that looked a bit like Death Valley. The sea was crystal clear and had so many variations of blue and green in it.
After a lovely lunch of crayfish for John and salmon salad for Clare, we followed the path up to the top of the cliff and had fabulous views of seals sunning themselves on the shore below and also saw a couple of Rays swimming in the shallows, the water was that clear from 100 feet up. Unfortunately we only had the small camera with us so couldn’t get any decent pictures.
We walked about 10 miles and were very thirsty by the time we made it back as we hadn’t taken any water, expecting to be able to get a drink in the town just the other side of the headland, but it had no shop or cafe at all.