22 degrees, mostly sunny
Today we drove further up SH1 towards Christchurch, stopping at the Moeraki Rocks, the rocks on the front of this blog. These are spherical boulders on the sea shore which can be seen at low tide, quite a few spread out over 100 metres or so. They were really strange, some were being eroded from the cliff side – most peculiar, though too many people around for John’s photographic requirements.
It wasn’t me, honest!
After that we went on to Oamaru to look at more ‘old’ buildings. Oamaru has declared itself Steampunk capital of the world which is a science fiction genre set in the Victorian era of futuristic steam driven machines, like time machines. $20 to go into the Steampunk HQ which was quite imaginative, but glad it didn’t cost more than a tenner!
Following lunch in the van we moved on to Timaru which John wanted to see as Don, his Dad, served on the Timaru Star in the Merchant Navy. Not much to see in the town but we decided we would Freedom Camp tonight and our Campermate app said we could stay overnight in a town centre car park. However, after walking round the town we noticed a sign saying that the only place to Freedom Camp in the town was another car park by the Port which did not look too pleasant so we drove on up the SH1 looking for another place to camp about 20km away. But about 15km later we spotted a picnic area car park which allowed overnight stays, so following much doubt and misgivings on Clare’s part, we parked up for the night.