Timaru, NZ

Timaru is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand.
It is a small town, population 48,000.
We did not have any plans for today.
The weather was cool, but sunny. Perfect for walking.
Our first stop was South Canterbury Museum. Its collections include natural history specimens, Māori artefacts, European settlement and recent social history and documentary history.
Two most memorable things in this museum: kiwi and the size of an egg it carries. Poor mama. It is a very unique bird….cannot fly, has very strong legs and whiskers like a cat.
Another was Richard Pearse's plane he flew in 1903. Pearse was an Australian farmer and flew this plane nine months before Wright Brothers.

Then we visited St. Mary’s church, walked more and had coffee. After they with the renewed energy we visited two art galleries, had good lunch, walked to the beach on Caroline Bay and came back on the ship around 3:30 pm.Read more