A beautiful but chilly morning in Christchurch. We went to bed at about 6.00 pm last night and slept through to 6.00 a.m. this morning – that’s Jet lag for you! The morning was spent on an organised city tour on the coach which included a trip to the Christchurch Museum. Highlights here included memorabilia from Captain Scott’s expedition to the South Pole. He embarked from Lytlelton Harbour and when he failed to return from his trip in 1912 the artefacts that were recovered from his final resting place were brought back to Christchurch. After lunch we visited the Art Gallery which had a special exhibition of paintings by a local artist, Rita Angus. She is long gone now but her work was really beautiful and unusual. We had never heard about her before. We then went for a walk through the Botanical Gardens, green and lush with a river running through it on which you can hire boats and canoes or go for a punt. It is Autumn here now and the foliage on the trees is changing colour; oranges, yellows, reds...really beautiful.
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