Jet Ski ride

View of Mount Cook

Up early as we had a longish drive and wanted to get a good look at Mount Cook from this side in the early morning sunshine, it looked just great as you can see, inspiration for a future watercolour painting when I get more time.

We had another great scenic drive and the highlight was a high speed trip on a Jetski power boat up the Rakaia Gorge with driver Blair who really showed off for us in a ride that lasted 45 minutes, a really thrilling ride culminating in a 360 degree high speed spin on the fast moving Rakaia river which drenched us but we really didn’t care.

Drove on after our riverside picnic though the Canterbury Plain which is much less spectacular than the remainder of NZ, very reminiscent of the UK, fenced fields, trimmed hedges and plenty of sheep and cattle. We were not sorry to get past that 100 or so miles and motored north to Gore Bay, a lovely B&B by the sea where we shall stay for a couple of nights.