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| We drive from Kekerengu to Kaikoura for the day. Not the usual "hump" sign - this is for a dip. | Ford in the road - low spot that often gets washed out | The dip is surfaced in concrete to prevent it getting washed out. | Another dip, here you can see to the side the one-lane bridge available, if the road washes out | Men working ahead - construction. | ||
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| Pretty water colors as we drive into Kaikoura for the day. | Another neat sign - picnic area on the left. | Multiple colors of the ocean | Clouds over the mountains | |||
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| More hay bales encased in green plastic. Some along the roadside had cute smiley faces or "Go All Blacks" type slogans painted on them. | Nachos for lunch - one of Fran's favorites. | The beach at Kaikoura, gorgeous! Looking north | Looking south at the peninsula. On the far end sometimes some seals hang out - we're about to go check it out. | |||
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| Looking out at the tidal flats at low tide | Asking people to stay 10 metres (30 feet) away from the seals, to not distress the wild animals. They're trying to sleep! | A seal! | ||||
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| man he's cute! | Big guy. | zoomed way in, he snoozes | Tiny snails on the rocks everywhere. | Some kind of mollusc clinging to the rocks. | ||
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| Looks like the shell is sunken into the rock - like the mollusc has dug a depression into the rock. | Close-up - they're really about 1-2 inches in diameter. | Conical shelled snails? | close-up | Bob's shoe shows how tiny these shells are | ||
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| Teeny conical shells - like a centimeter in length max. Gobs of them! | Nearly invisible are tiny shrimp darting about in the tide pools. They are nearly transparent, only visible by first finding their shadow on the bottom. | Bob got a nice shot of one - he's on top of the dark kelp, right side, at the bottom of the kelp. | Two of them in this shot, one hard to see on the left, one top middle in the green weeds. | Big 4WD! | ||
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| Ducks! | A small park in Kaikoura | Pedestrian street crossing, but here the pedestrians have to give way. This is not the norm. | Pot Belly Bakery and Cafe - name matches the recently seen Fat Fish, Fat Cat, etc cafes. | |||
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| Neat sign - Motorcycle parking | Hmmm "tourist wear"...??? | Guiness for Keith & Ann. | Way cool t-shirt - how to prepare a Kiwi - bird transforms to fruit. | Another for Keith & Ann. | ||
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| Gorgeous mural on the side of a building in town. | ||