A Pleasant Surprise in Wanaka

We had another great day to complete our drive down the west coast.  Besides the beautiful scenery we met a couple of very interesting characters.  Steve, a jade carver and Nolly ,a dutch woman who had lived her for about 40 years and had a shop right from the turn of the 19^th to 20^th century.  Both were real characters and we felt we had met some true New Zealander spirits.

We arrived at our B and B around 3:00 and discovered a couple from England, we had met in Fiji were here as well. Diane and Paul were on their honeymoon (2nd marriages) and we had given them our itinerary. They had thought they might connect with us in Nelson but when we checked in there they had left us a note saying they had moved on because of the weather. We didn’t expect to see them but they checked in here for a night to surprise us. We went out for dinner and it was nice to catch up with them.