Harington Point

Slept in a little this morning and the kids decided to try the free kayaking at the Kurow Caravan park, so off we went on a little river adventure! It was hilarious. Michael was rowing the little tugboat followed by Amayah (who didn’t want to get wet in a kayak!), me in a pink kayak, Celeste in a red kayak and Hamish was a natural in his little “nippers” yellow kayak. We had a great time in a place where we didn’t plan on staying, met the lovely Theo and Diane, who were so nice to us (didn’t charge us for the kids), so Celeste wrote a thank you note to them which they thought was lovely and now hangs with pride on their noticeboard! We boarded the motorhome and we were off again. Drove through Oamaru, with a short stop-off for morning tea where we found the most amazing cupcakes and not a bad “trim flat white”! We headed south down the coast, stopping off at the famous Moreaki boulders. Had to pay a fee to go on the beach to see some rocks that were in the shape of large circular domes. I thought they were interesting but Michael wasn’t so impressed – he thought the name “boulder” was very exaggerated! It began to rain so we drove on. Had a short look at Fleur’s restaurant (meant to have the most amazing seafood) but we really wanted to get to Otago Peninsula before dark so unfortunately, we didn’t stop. We headed into Dunedin and drove along the winding road along the coast up to a little town on the peninsula called “Portobello”. We had a bite to eat for dinner, the kids patted the local horses and sheep, and then we headed up to the tip of the peninsula to the Royal Albatross Centre to see the little blue penguins head into shore at 9:45pm! It was very cold and very windy but well worth staying up for. The noise they make was hilarious and there were almost 250 coming into shore to nest for the night. Headed back to Portobello after a long day.Read more