Westport

We set off bright and early this morning, down the coast towards Westport. Today is also our 24th wedding anniversary so we decided to spoil ourselves with a celebratory morning tea at the Factory Corner, in Richmond. We have been there before, and enjoyed it, and this time did not disappoint either. Bruce thought his cheese scone was one of the best he had eaten, and my berry brownie certainly was. We also went across to the food barn and purchased a big piece of smoked cheese.

By the time we had started driving south towards Murchison, the drizzly wet weather had cleared, and by the time we actually reached Murchison the sun was shining. We stopped at the motorhome park for lunch, and to drop off a few more travel diaries (that we are now giving away), then on to Westport.

To get there we have to travel through the famous, single lane rock cutting. Bruce got a very good video of it while I was driving through, but the still photos will have to do for this site.

We arrived at the NZMCA park in plenty of time to be able to take a good long walk on the beach, doing a bit of rock collecting as we went. It was not a typical west coast day in that there was almost no wind again, so the beach was really pleasant.

We came across a beach “monster”.

Some enterprising individual had spent quite a long time painting up this log, and the result was quite impressive.

Because the sea was so calm, we did not get to witness some of the fishing boats struggling their way up the river, over the bar. There were several surfers in the water but even they were struggling to find good waves in the calm conditions.

After taking a few photos we made our way back along the beach towards camp, and to relax for what was left of the day.