First stop – Kaikoura. After parking at the trotting club, we walked over the neck of the peninsula into town and looked around. On Thursday we did a much longer walk, about four hours in all – over the hill again, along the beachfront to Fyffe House (which we visited) and on to the end of the road. From here we went up to the clifftops and walked around to South Bay and back along the road to the bus.
The first day's walk
Fyffe House
'Fyffe House was literally built on the back of whaling – the initial single-storey cottage, which became the wing of a larger home, rests on piles made from the vertebrae of a mighty Tohorā (Southern right whale). But Kaikōura’s famously pink heritage building, and the land it occupies, has a history that is centuries deep...'
Garden at Fyffe House looking across to the mountains
On the headland walk
Sunbathing seals
Carved entranceway
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