our spot at French Farm by the Akaroa harbour

Onawe Peninsula walk

at the start of the peninsula walk

looking down from the old pa site at the end of the peninsula - the white dot on the shoreline is the bus

me at the pa summit

driving around in the afternoon

 

Malcolm at Le Bons beach

the summit road

rain forest at Otepatotu

views from the road

Malcolm at the Otepatotu summit

bellbird

Today we had great weather.  We moved the bus to the harbourside at French farm, established in 1840 - now a vineyard.  We went for a walk on the Onawe Peninsula which is a very narrow ridge of land that sticks into the harbour at Barrys Bay.  It goes up to a pa site.  There were great views all around and the loop track back goes through bush close to the water.  From the peninsula you could see a little white blob that was the bus!

In the afternoon we went for a drive up the Summit Road to Otepatotu Reserve where we did a loop walk through mountain totara hung with moss - very goblin forest!  It's name translates roughly to 'place of the fairies'.  We saw lots of birds that we have identified from the bird book as bell birds.