13th Oct

Monday 13^th October 2014

When ‘they’ eventually got up and organised we took the train into the city to Wynyard Station and even with stopping at every station it only took 28 minutes for the journey. We followed exit signs that took us on a journey through a myriad of trading stalls, the bulk being snack bars and coffee stalls but I reckon you could have purchased just about anything. Eventually we came out onto street level and had no idea where we were or what direction we had to go in. Fortunately as I was carrying a small day backpack at least the poor unsuspecting soul I stopped to query which direction the ‘Rocks’ were in, would have realised I was a dumb tourist. “That way” and no smile and it was probably less than a 5 minute walk although we took our time looking at things as we went. Found a couple of banks we needed and David managed to get himself lost for a while, thank goodness for mobile phones.

So we spent several hours wandering around the rocks area taking photos as you do and enjoying the warm sun that we knew was going to be short lived.

We made sure we got back to camp by 4.00pm and battened down in preparation for the forecast storm TV was warning everyone about.