January 18, 2013
“What do you do all day?” Take today. We woke up thinking we’d just kind of take it easy and not worry about doing much. We thought we’d take the car ferry over to Russel as we wanted to sample the fish and chips again as we are on a quest to determine which is our favorite. We told a local friend this and he told us about three other fish and chips places we needed to try, as well as a great drive, great walk and waterfall stop on the way to one of them. Off we went.
We ended up trying the fish and chips at Shippey’s. This is an old ship that was built in 1890 to carry sugar to Auckland (link) and now sits up on stilts and serves as a restaurant. The fish and chips were incredible. This might be the new front-runner, but we’ll need to try all the others again to compare.
We took the scenic drive to see if we could find the other recommended restaurant. Wow, pretty!
At the end of the drive was Haruru Falls. Not a huge waterfall but pretty.
From the falls, there’s a beautiful walk (about an hour and a half, we understand) that heads back near where we started. It goes along the river. We walked just a little ways to see what it looked like. Maybe tomorrow we’ll do the entire walk.
