We have another birthday today.
Happy 50th Birthday to Evka.
Enjoy your day Evka and let your boys pamper you.
🌸🎈🥳🎈🌼
This fellow pops up around the place a lot. One police car, and one policeman.
We See him around this tiny town several times a day. One fire engine and 15 fireman. Combined primary and Intermediate School with 36 kids and three teachers. No high school, the kids have to go to Boarding School in Invercargill or Dunedin. 400 to 500 residents in the community and about 2,000 on the island including the tourist. People who live here don’t have letter-boxes at their homes. They have to go to the Flight booking office in the village, to pick up their mail.
We went on a one and half hour minibus tour. Not a lot of roads but lots we didn’t cover. I thought we would have covered the lot in that time but no. The tour wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. Passing along the coast not even stopping for photos where two beautiful beaches were. Hence haven’t taken many photos. I feel we should rent a car for a couple of hours tomorrow and see it all but looks like the weather is closing in then. First stop above at a lookout point looking down over Golden Bay. Mainly a fishing community of eight fishing boats. Numbers have decreased. As you can see the cloud built up today unfortunately.
Looking down over the Golden Bay inlet. Where the fishing boats operate from.
Closer look into the inlet.
A video over Golden Bay
After going up to the top the hill to the above lookout we came back down then drove further around the coast road east. To a little beach called Lonnekers Beach.
Zooming in behind the Island, (in previous photo) is a sheltered spot for boats. No doubt more fishing boats.
Lonnekers beach looking the other way.
We are now out at Mamaku PointThis monument is of a large chain which represents the connection from Stewart Island to Bluff where there is a similar monument.
Going up the hill and rolling down to the sea.
Rolling down to the sea.
Above Lee Bay this monument is where the telephone cable came over from Bluff in 1902 making connections to Stewart Island which was always dependent upon small sailing vessels for communications with the mainland. Then the cable was continued 5km over bush-clad hills from here to the telephone exchange in Oban in Halfmoon Bay.
Lee bay where the telephone cable came in from Bluff.
Looking down the other end of the Lee Bay looking up to see a fence which was installed around the point to keep the rodents out to protect our native birds including the Kiwi. They tell us there are about 18,000 to 25,000 Kiwi in these conservation areas. They have even been seen walking down the Main Street in Oban at night.
This is the bus we travelled on. It would be nice to see more of the Island in a rental car tomorrow but don’t think the weather is going to be too good. Looks like a lot of rain so wouldn’t see anything.
End of the day now in the Pub about to have a drink.
Sitting in the bar of the South Sea Hotel where we are staying in their motel block behind the Old Pub.
Beautiful position, garden bar outside in front just across the road from the beach.
Waiting for our dinner in the restaurant of the hotel with same view.
Seafood Chowder for dinner tonight. Very thick and filling. mainly full of their mussels and big chunks of fish probably Blue Cod.
At this stage it looks like the weather is wet tomorrow so not sure what we will do as we don’t leave the Island until the 8.00am boat on Sunday morning.
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