KAKANUI

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Only a 10minute drive up the road from Oamaru, Kakanui is also a coastal town in the region of Otago and is renowned for its beautiful beaches. Campbell’s Bay is recognised as a prominent surfing beach and if it wasn’t so bloody cold I may have considered going for a dip. I will have to come back with my surfboard in the summer ☺



On the morning that we were leaving Kakanui, Campbell’s Bay was hosting a local surfing competition for a charity fundraiser. An event that had the locals gossiping and setting up stalls, it was a shame we couldn’t stay and enjoy the carnival.

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Alison and Nevel (Vanessa’s aunty and uncle) hosted us for two days on their farm. In this day and age living on a farm is not as remote or isolated as what I thought. They live walking distance to the beach and boast all the amenities that modern technology can offer, such as Internet and sky TV (something you would not find on the Gold Coast).

Experiencing the rural New Zealand farm life in comparison to the city centres was fabulous. Fresh fruit and vegetables from the garden filled our plates at meal times and the sound of nothing filled my ears all day long. It was so exciting to go for rides on the huge harvester truck with my audience of bulls, sheep and deer watching eagerly.

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Moeraki Boulders

We went for a drive out to the Moeraki Boulders today and had lunch at the café, which overlooks the boulders on the beach. About the half waypoint between Dunedin and Oamaru (closer to Oamaru), the Moeraki Boulders are basically huge spherical stones that are mysteriously scattered along a stretch of the Koekohe Beach near Moeraki.



They remind me of oversized cannon balls that were fired onto the beach by pirates. Maori have their own theory that the boulders are the remains of the legendary canoe, the Araiteuru wrecked at nearby Shag Point. Then of course there is the science explanation, which makes the most sense and argues that the boulders originally formed in the ancient sea floor some 60 million years ago.

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