Timaru part 2

After getting home we decided to go cave art hunting. The "quick 10 minute drive" turned into about an hour of misread maps, mislead directions (who names a town Cave?!) and all this meant we did NOT get home for the start of the Auckland AFC game.
At the end of a dirt road and parking in a paddock we found an ancient Moa Valley and some intuition found us some caves. It was cool to see them in situ and understand the way Ngai Tahu would have traversed through. 
The football game ended with a very disappointing 4-0 loss and even once we could get access a broadcast, no one wanted to. 

Laundry for me and fish and chip hunting for the boys. After that we survived to look for penguins!

Little Blue Penguins come out after sunset. We decided to head out a few minutes before sunset (9pm) to make sure we got a carpark and a position on the fence. Minutes turned to hours, the number of people trebled and e all realized the folly of waiting for penguins to arrive after dark on the longest day of the year. It didn't get really dark until after 10, and even then the penguins took their noisy time to arrive. They did come though. So very cute. With the wait. But it was not a torrent or rush of penguins,  more of a trickle. Getting a photo was nearly impossible. 

The coffee that morning and the subsequent wait for the boys meant I had read the Timaru Herald from cover to cover and discovered the winning home in the Christmas decorations competition. I don't know why any one else even bothers to compete. It was spectacularly over the top crazy and nuts. The photos don't do justice to the dynamic light fest that it was. 
To bed, to sleep in our enormous Californian King bed. Tomorrow, we go to the mountains!

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