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Day 4 of NZ trip Lake Tekapo to Omaru.

 Today we headed to the sea again to Omaru for couple of nights. Nice town fairly large with all the usual stuff. They have a Heritage centre in the middle of town we will visit tomorrow and a penguin centre we will also see tomorrow night.



We headed off and had a stop at Twizel for morning tea. Not much there really. A Lord of the Rings statue is about it.


LOTR statue

Next we stopped a little quaint town called Kurow for look at a vintage shop and the info center. It was quite amazing this small town had lots of historic items in shops. 


Maori Items

The information centre had a good little museum, free to visit. Lots of cool stuff about the Maori and bones from the extinct Moa bird. War items and old stuff from shearing and spinning wheels were also there. Worth a visit for sure. 

MOA bones



On to Duntroon for lunch. While there a visit to Maori rock art and a place called Elephant rock.

Maori rock art--- Wouldn't bother sorry

Rock art

- Aboriginal rock art is way more interesting.

Elephant rock - well they say it looks like a herd of elephants, the rocks that were left from weathering that have risen form the sea long ago. Well gotta have a good imagination I reckon.  Some scenes from The Chronicles of Narnia were filmed here. Worth a visit? Not really.



On to Omaru for a couple of days by the beach again. Overcast and cool here atm about 20C high and 6 or so low.

Omaru Bay


Things we have learnt so far....

Some random stuff about NZ.

An Esky = Chlli Bin 

Mangoes $6 ea

Petrol 91 (like E10 ) $2.70 a litre - Diesel is about $1.80 NZ$

These road signs mean no stopping -thought it was no speed limit😊

Road works- they have a road sign saying Temporary 30 or whatever - all in round shapes.

Maybe shouldn't complain about costs in Aus now.

  

That's for today - more adventures tomorrow.

Rob & Liz




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