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Published: April 22nd 2021
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After the long drive from Christchurch on Monday and then yesterday the trip out to Anakoha Bay we were ready for a day of not even getting in the car and just sitting tight and watch what the world sent by us at TeMahia.
As the light came up in the sky we could see that the hills across Kenepuru Sound from the resort were shrouded in low cloud. Although it had rained overnight that seemed to have now passed and we had great anticipation of the sun breaking through at any time and lift the low cloud.
As we had breakfast the sun did break through and the low cloud broke up and drifted away except for a couple of small clouds low down on the hills on the other side of the sound. It was interesting watching those clouds come and go over a quarter of an hour and it did leave us wondering how weather does really work.
As you might be starting to pick up from this blog, that we did have time on our hands today without the need to get in the car and travel off somewhere and there was time to
consider things that happen around you that you would otherwise have no time for at all.
With breakfast finished, beds made etc etc we decided to take a stroll down to the jetty and observe the resort and it’s surrounds from across the water.
At times over the past day and half that we have been here the jetty has had it’s busy moments as water taxis have come and gone dropping off or picking up hikers that were in various stages of walking the Queen Charlotte Track.
Now though, the jetty was quiet and our presence wouldn’t have us in the way as observers while people and luggage were moved to and from the car park to the jetty and onto or off a boat.
Out hosts, Jann and Trevor had given us a bit of history of the original building which was built in the late 1800’s as a farmhouse when the area around the location and apparently over the ridge was cleared for farming. Access we assume was by boat.
In the 1930’s another story was added to the farmhouse and a hotel created with another option for access by road on
what would have been described as a ‘bridal path’ that stretched over 20km from the highway between Picton and Nelson.
The resort has plenty of sepia colour tone photos taken in those earlier years. Our apartment had one large photo of a wedding party in their formal wedding garb.
The photos in the room and passageways gives the resort a sort of quirky feeling but it was good to see that the history had been retained giving guests a sense of what it would have been like to live there in the early years.
While we were down on the jetty we struck up conversations with two groups of visitors who had come down to the waters edge. One pair were checking out the resort for a possible stay during an upcoming motorcycle rally.
We spent the rest of the day having sandwiches for lunch, reading and just watching the scenery change in the sound as yachts and small boats sailed past the opening to the bay and occasionally sailing in to tie up briefly at the jetty. All the while we tried to pick whether the light showers of rain that spread along the hills
in the distance would also invade our bay and one or two did with one serious enough to have Gretchen running to get the washing in.
We ended the day so relaxed that we even watched a whole episode of ‘The Chase’ before the ritual of the 6pm news and dinner.
When the light fades in the sky it very quickly becomes dark and any gazing out at the sound and marine traffic becomes invisible except for the boat navigation lights.
Eventually heading for bed we just hoped that we weren’t too rested for sleep not to arrive quickly.
Tomorrow it’s onto Nelson with a diversion out to French Pass, subject to the weather.
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