In the morning, we took a quick detour back because Hannah had learnt about the presence of baby seals at a nearby waterfall (Ohau waterfall)! We were greeted by tons (at least sixty!) of baby seals playing in the waterfall. The adult seals had treated this place like a "baby seal care centre". They travel about 500m from the coast towards the park, and leave their baby seals here while they are out hunting for food. They would come back for them every few days. The baby seals were cute and friendly, and some of them were way too friendly! They would approached the tourists who were eagerly taking photos of them, and some idiotic tourist would pet them or even attempt to kiss them (Hannah and I were secretly hoping they would get bitten by the seals!). We took a few nice photographs and quickly leave the park before we lost our patience.
Finally, we are on the InterIslander Ferry back to Wellington. On the ferry, there were a couple of very excellent performers who sang and played various instruments very well. Besides the performers, old drunken men also never hesitated to show off their vocal (or lack of) talents :). Amidst enjoying the show, Hannah and I were also busy with advertising the van for sale on Trademe. There were inquiries about the van minutes after the advertisement went live (we were sure that we might have put the price of the van too low :/ )
It was late when we arrived at the Kaitoke Regional Park. The park would have been close when we arrived if not for the great ranger. Hannah had called ahead and told him that we would be late, and he left the gate open for us so that we could get into the park and camp for the night.
The next night we camped at De Brett's Thermal Holiday Park. Due to my healing tattoo wounds, I could not go to the thermal pool, but that didn't stop Hannah from rejuvenating herself by soaking in the thermal pool for an hour!
Day 29 marks the end of our road trip and the start of "The Great Migration Part II - The Return of the Migrants". It will be the beginning of our trip back to USA.
No comments:
Post a Comment