Postcard from New Zealand...

Having a brief holiday in Kaikoura, about 2 hours up the coast from Christchurch. There are plenty of seals on the rugged beaches along the coastline and from our house we can see dolphins leaping out of the water. The house is over the road from the beach and at the back the hills rise steeply to the snow covered mountains beyond. Its picture postcard stuff. And remote too, getting out of the city reminds us how sparsely populated rural New Zealand is.