A New View Around Every Corner...

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

We are back on the road again, this time travelling south between Picton  and Kaikoura.

We see not only the usual stuff: kilometres of landscape, bridges, the mainline train track and logging truck  but also a few bits for light entertainment (depending on who you are in our car).

For everyone: a giggle at the giant fibreglass hand  on top of a building holding a mobile  phone with a globe close by… for Little Mr. a police officer in his car who’s probably pulled the boatie up for speeding,  for me the bicycle atop the little shed-like building and the bright yellow sign “Peddlers Rest Cycle Stop”  and for himself the sea and beaches of the Kaikoura coast. The drive is by now becoming a relatively familiar one and we enjoy the relaxed pace.

It might be State Highway Number One, but even on New Zealand’s longest  highway, apart from a few passing lanes (mostly on hills so that you can overtake trucks)  you  are light-years away from a motorway experience so it’s far from mundane and there’s always a new view around the next corner.

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)