Our journey has taken us full circle of the South Island and we are now in Christchurch until Sat 29 Nov. The Australian National over 65 cricket is in NZ this year so we're here for the week.
The last day at Hanmer Springs was fairly chilled. We did 1 walk through through the Fairy Door walk, where children have made lots of small tree houses and they have them throughout the walking track on or near trees.
Various fairy houses
The other Sculpture walk track was close due to the massive storm that had ripped through the are at the end of Oct.
Next on to Christchurch where Lizzy went and visited a craft fair.
Then went out to have a look at the beach here before going on to our accom. There is a huge pier extending around 150m out from the shore. The sand on this side of the island is sandy and dark in colour unlike the west coast.
Day 1 of the cricket nationals went off without a hitch - but we lost to NZ. Nothing to write home about in this match.
Lizzy went wandering with another wife from the teams and jumped on the tram and saw sights and spent some more money on bits and pieces.
They went to the quake centre of remembrance centre for the quake that occurred here in 2010 and the 2011 where people lost their lives. The old Anglican cathedral sustained major damage in 2011 and it's being repaired.
Temporality they have a cardboard cathedral. Yep cardboard. Compressed type which lots of structure and parts are made from till the new church is finished.
Day 2 of the nationals saw our team rained out. (If you know the joke about rain and cricket you can smile now) So we hung around till they called it off about lunchtime. The team went out to dinner that night as a group.
Day 3 is a rest day for teams so we wandered around town for a while taking in some sights. The new Stadium is due to open next year here. Some street art in places a s well is cool.
Street art
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