Sunday Jan 17, 2010 -
Motueka

We decided not to do too much today. We still went off to visit the Hӧglund Art Glass Gallery. The glass work was beautiful but very expensive. There was a large bowl that I liked but at 4,500 NZ dollars it stayed there.

On the way back I decided we could have taken another route but we had missed it. However on our map it showed a road going across to the other road. So we took it. Well it was a one lane gravel road. There was a gate along it with a sign talking about vandalism but nothing about it being a private road When, we got to the next gate we realized we could go no further. We are not sure if we could have taken another track along the way but it looked even less travelled than the one we were own. So we just headed back to the road we had been on and took that route home. I still wonder if the road would have gotten us to the other road.

We stopped at a mini golf course. It was out in the middle of an orchard. There was a driving range there in the past but the balls kept disappearing into the swamp. They put apple trees in instead and built the mini golf course. It was great fun. The first two holes were quite easy but we were just being lolled into a false sense of security. Two holes in particular where very hard. On the 9^th hole, I finally put my ball up on the hole level and finished off from there. We had a great time and lots of laughs. Charles got 4 hole-in-ones with 3 coming on the back nine.

Spent the rest of the day resting and working on the Journal and Pictures.