- [Shazz] Okay, so just done breakfast etc,
I'm heading back down now from Collingwood
to Nelson Lakes as an intermediate stop,
and then ultimately I'm going to go to Westport.
I'm just going to hit the road now and start
driving baby, oh yeah!
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It'd be a shame if I didn't jump in so, here we go.
(splash)
Well, that was fun.
Pretty cold actually.
Feel more awake now.
So, came to Nelson Lakes, this is one of the lakes
beginning with R-something.
Blazingly hot actually, actually under the sun.
Anyway, it's a nice a big lake,
nice quick stop-off on the way to Westport.
Pretty chilled out really, take a look.
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Sun's going down now, standing on this kind of cliff edge
with this really awesome bay.
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Now I'm just leaving Westport,
couple of quick stops along the way.
Just at this little lighthouse,
then there's a seal colony on the way,
I'll stop there and see the seals.
And then, I should with a bit of luck,
it's Christmas Day, oh Happy Christmas by the way, woo!
It's Christmas Day today, with a bit of luck
I might be having a surfing lesson at two o'clock.
Right so, I'm at the seal colony now,
and that is it down there.
I've got to be honest, when I first came here
I thought they'd all gone home,
I couldn't see anything,
but they're kind of quite hard to see actually
at first glance, and then the more you look
the more you just see lots and lots of them
kind of hiding away in the rocks and chilling out,
sunbathing, having a little swim, all the rest of it.
There's quite a lot of them here, let's have a little look.
Can you see this guy there?
There's a whole bunch over in this corner.
Super difficult to see on that little video,
but they're there.
So, chilling, just been observing these guys
for a little while, just going to head back down now.
All right, all right, so here I am now at
Tauranga Bay, I've got surf lessons kicking off
at two o'clock, yes, I've never done surfing before.
I don't have any waterproof camera equipment
with me though so,
unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be able to
show you all of the fun and joy of me stacking it
on the surf board.
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So the way it worked out, obviously,
surfing I didn't actually manage to take any footage,
and I had contemplated setting the drone up
on auto-track mode to get me on the waves
but you know what?
It's probably best I didn't, it would not have been
a pretty sight.
But actually, the surfing was really good fun.
I managed to get standing up,
and taking a nice long few,
I don't even know what to call them,
catching a few good waves, because now
I'm like a proper surfer.
It was good man, it was good.
So I been in Westport, that's where I am now,
and I'm driving about three and a half, four hours,
down to Franz Josef Glacier.
Anyways, without further ado, let's hit the road.
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Yeah, so just coming for the pancake rocks and blowholes.
Got a little trail to walk down,
and there's a big sign saying no drones.
So this is what all the fuss is about,
these lovely pancake rocks.
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I'm right on the coastal road,
going south along the west coast.
The rain is coming down like no one's business.
I've got another maybe one and a half, two hours to go?
It's getting dark, sun sets in here around nine o'clock,
but because the clouds have come in super heavy
it's dark now.
Part of me is kind of hoping for like a bit
of thunder and lightning and all that kind of stuff
just to make things a little bit more dramatic,
but no it doesn't look
like that's what's going to be happening.
(mellow jazz music)