Seals and meals

Well, Stuart picked me up, and as it was still such a lovely afternoon, we visited a seal colony which was a couple of miles up the road...  and there they all were just lazing around comfortably on the leathery belts of seaweed ...or indeed anywhere they chose,

like the big warm rocks.....

or the car park wall....This one doesn’t actually have a lazy eye... he was just too lazy to open the other one to check me out....

entirely unbothered by all the humans taking photos of them...

Had lovely seafood chowder for dinner... (They are famous for their crayfish here in Kaikoura which I think are pretty much what we call lobsters, but they are so prohibitively expensive that I don’t know if anyone actually eats them!

Stuart had an early start to drive to Picton and I had much blogging to get on with, and we realised that if we didn’t stop right there it could end up a dangerously messy night, so we parted with emails and promises of future contact and was rather sad to say good bye, as  he was a great laugh, and we had a lot in common (including very similar taste in men!)

On to Christchurch tomorrow.