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New Zealand
2007
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Day Eighteen Bleinheim
March 31
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Travel day from Christchurch to Bleinheim presented several vistas of the
Pacific coast.
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Road conditions were clear and the four hour journey had limited curves and
foothill
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mountains.
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Lunch choice was the peninsula town of Kaikoura. The area is known for
it's seafood and
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several restaurants and small roadside kiosks featured crayfish. Once
we saw the prices for
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a whole and half crayfish, we knew Kiwi terminology was different.
Seems that crayfish are
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not the small crawfish, but, the large lobsters. Kaikoura was the
Maine of New Zealand.
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After viewing the Pacific and seals from the Kaikoura point, we continued on
the Pacific
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Route 1. A couple of stops along the way were interesting - Ferrari
car rally parked at
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a winery and then a saltworks factory. The saltworks uses large basins and
outgoing Pacific
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tide to capture sea salt. Results were large mounds of salt to be
processed.
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Our arrival town of Bleinhiem is being impacted by the growing wine
industry. New
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streetscape and artistic shops enhance the town. We learned another
driving difference -
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on the two lane roads, right turning - across traffic - has the right of way
compared to cars
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turning left on their own side. Looks like it helps keep cars from
blocking traffic - that's our
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guess.
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