The longest journey in our trip begins from Garden Motel,
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East Coast of NZ |
Let give a stop at Moeraki Boulders where you can see huge spherical stones. There is nothing much there but at least we left our footprints.
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Moeraki Boulder |
Previously, I was planned to stop at Oamaru town as it is famous about blue penguin colony and Waitaki District. After considering all our backpackers, hotel, motel and this time I want to try out farm living experience. Therefore, I cancel my thought and choose to stay at Timaru. Ok, let’s come back. Oamaru, is a beautiful town with culture and heritage. I was fascinated by the magnificient historical building in Oamaru. There are the criterion motel, one of the well-known bed and breakfast accommodation themed in a Victorian style of refurbishment, oamaru botanical garden, very pleasant place for people who like greens, the woolstore, selling souvenir specially for Oamaru, and a it is served café.
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Criterion Motel |
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I-Site Oamaru is just in the corner of the street |
In Oamaru, you can’t miss to go for blue penguin colony (yes, you need to pay) and yellow eye penguin colony (free of charge). This is such regret that the blue penguin colony is only opened for visit around the time of 4 – 5 in the evening. In order not to stay longer and waste the other half day, we took a quick lunch at one of the Chinese restaurant in Oamaru to continue our journey.
After 1 hour of driving, we are finally reached Timaru. Timaru is almost similar to Oamru which preserved much of its historic heritage, both in terms of its architecture and through local treasures housed in the excellent local museum. Art gallery is one of the activities you can found but our destination is not absolutely Timaru but is a 19km distance away, the Pleasant Point. It took us 20 minutes to reach and we begin to search for our last accommodation, Long View Bed and Breakfast. Well, it is an urban place and undoubtedly it is quite far from the town. We are so excited when we finally find our farmstay accommodation and we are welcomed by one of the host, Alan where his wife, Anita has no yet return from visiting her grandchildren. Alan is such a friendly man and bringing us to our room. Oh my god, the view is so panoramically great!
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Our room, Mt Dohbson |
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Paranomic field |
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Garden yard |
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Booklet filled with guest comment |
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Comfortable living area |
Without wasting the 2 hour left before the sun sink, we drove back to town again to have some walk and food for dinner. The place we went is Botanical garden and
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Botanical garden |
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A swarm of duck |
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Caroline Bay |
After dinner, we went back to Long view and take a bath. For the night, we spend time talking with Alan and Anita. They are friendly and the environment in living room is cosy. Making me to spend few nights here.
On next morning, we are walking out to the host’s planting olive grove and watching the sun rise. It is so freezing cool and my hand was shivering pressing the shutter. The grass has already icy and winter is about to come more early this year. We have been served the best breakfast we had in NZ. The meals included are cereal, yogurt, coffee, juice, full breakfast set, and toast. After that, our long waited farm visit has come. Alan is taking us to his cattle farm. When the time we stepped into the cattle farm, there are walking in rush towards us because they know this is their breakfast time. Alan mentioned in winter the grass is growing slower, and he needed to control the fresh grass area that is sufficient for their daily intake. He separated the field with some electrical shock fence to prevent cattle from crossing fresh grass. Cattle has a wet nose and it looks funny way out. Conclusion, the farm stay experience is the best I can say among all the accommodation we have stayed. In here, we can feel the warm and harmony immersed from the host. I would highly recommend this bed and breakfast.
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Olive |
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Icy grass in the morning |
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Delicious breakfast served |
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Cattle farm |
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