Akaroa

Akaroa means long bay, the small waterside town of Akaroa is located on the Banks Peninsula about 80km from Christchurch. We borrowed Jen’s car and it was very very odd driving a car and being so close to the ground. We felt like our bottoms where rubbing the ground, after 4 weeks in a campervan being so high up. Can’t see over fences etc in a car. The scenery and roads to get to Akaroa were impressive with the occasional sheep lazy lying by the side of the road. We stopped half way at a café on the hill before descending back down to the waterside. The café did lush iced coffee for Stella and a iced chocolate for me. It’s a bit like a milkshake and then they put a huge lump of ice cream and then cream on the top, yuuummmm.
This is the view down to Akaroa

Akaroa is billed as New Zealand’s French settlement. The initial settlers did come from France . Some of the street are called rue, but that’s about as French as it gets!
We went to the local museum which told you about the first settlers etc, with a 20 min video which was good. The weather wasn’t so warm, so Stella decided against trying to swim with dolphins. But we did have fish and chips, something I had been asking for for weeks. We had Hoki and chips. That is the most common fish at these places. It was nice, Stella said it was too fishy.