Okains Bay

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Completing the first year in New Zealand

Published: May 31st 2008Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Banks Peninsula
May 18th 2008

After a week in Christchurch, which resulted in scoring one job and one apartment, we took advantage of our last weekend with the hire car and drove over to the Banks Peninsula to stay at 'Double Dutch' backpackers in the remote Okains Bay. We walked along the estuary to the beach on friday and then went climbing in the mountains above the harbour on saturday morning. That afternoon we went to the Francophile town of Akaroa (the site of the failed French bid to colonise New Zealand in the 1840s).

On Sunday we drove back to Christchurch via some very remote unsealed roads, looking at the remote bays of the Banks Peninsula and passing through Lyttleton (Christchurch's main port).

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We started this travel blog in 2005 when we set off on a ten-month around-the-world trip with a couple of backpacks and not much else. Since then, we've spent a couple of years back in England, done a little travelling in Europe and Africa and posted the odd blog whenever we get chance. In 2008, we emigrated to New Zealand with four suitcases and a guitar and spent the first month travelling throughout the country, from Auckland to Christchurch, via a roundabout route. We now live in Christchurch and post the odd blog now and again...whenever the travel bug bites. Happy reading! Also, f... full info

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