Our first order of business after
having breakfast was to search out the Spaceships HQ in Christchurch and
exchange some DVDs for Tegan. Following
the GPS we arrived at what used to be their HQ, but now was a red flagged
building after the earthquake. Come one
Spaceships, the earthquake happened 6 months ago and besides the address you
had listed; the street name was incorrectly spelt!
We were approaching the CBD from the
north and you noticed the destruction on smaller buildings in the outlying areas. Cracks on walls, roofs half falling in or
buildings being dismantled for a later rebuilding project were only a few of
the very noticeable scenes around this part of Christchurch.
Learning the address to the new
location we were off and off to an area well south of Christchurch and it took
about 30 minutes just to drive there.
We eventually arrived and exchanged our movies and then went on to find
a laundromat to wash some clothes. It
cost us $16 to do 2 loads of wash. The
typical holiday parks charge about $3 a load and usually that would mean $12
for the same amount.
Getting to the laundromat was
another ordeal. The GPS had us cutting
across town but the streets are all closed off due to the damage from the
earthquake. Streets would just end and
we did a number of U-turns prior to bypassing the fenced off areas. There was this one building in the CBD that
much have been 20-30 storeys, the look of the building was that it had shifted
and parts of it were out of alignment. I
can’t imagine there would be a fix for the building only an eventual demolish
and rebuild.
We had been killing time in
Christchurch so that Tegan could have a go at Clip n’ Climb. This is a climbing facility that houses a
more amusement type take on rock climbing without the need for a person to
belay the climber; instead relying on a device to belay the climber
automatically. I was really interested
in this place and thought it would be fantastic, but it sort of let us down;
not providing the thrill or enjoyment we thought it would.
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| Large fern on hillside made from white bails of hay |
We headed south until we reached our
campsite at Moeraki. I made Tegan some
rice while waiting for 100 photos to be uploaded to my gallery. If the rice took 10 minutes to make, then I
could have made 24 pouches of rice prior to all the photos reaching my
gallery. I figure there were 10 MBs
maximum of photos and it took over 4 hours!
Ouch.
Alarm's set for 6am. Night.
