Diamond Harbour

I worked a short week this week and started the weekend early. Four day weekends: nothing wrong with that.

It was a nice day so we decided to take a little trip across Lyttelton Harbour to the town of Diamond Harbour. Here's a bird's eye view of the town, from its website. It's just a short ferry ride away.

I really like going to Lyttelton (we may have mentioned in the past how much we like Lyttelton). It's a working port, so you can see giant ships hauling stuff around. Coal, containers, logs. Lots of logs. I said, "I wonder where all the logs came from?" Gareth, ever so smart, replied: "Trees."



We weren't really sure where to go when we got off the ferry. We followed a lady who seemed to be walking with a purpose. She led us to a parking lot, where she got in her car and drove away. We had not done any research before going and really weren't sure where we were going or what we would do. We walked uphill and eventually came to what we suppose was the town centre. It had a "country store", a cafe, and a real estate office, and the smallest post office I'd ever seen (Gareth says he's seen smaller).

There was also this place, Godley House, which seems to be the main attraction.

It's a big house with a nice garden out back. It's a B&B, and it appears they also hold functions like weddings there. There's a cafe too, so we got some coffees and sat for a bit. My drink of choice right now: a trim cappuccino. Gareth's: a flat white. They're almost the same thing - I think the flat white just has less milk and no froth.

We then left Godley House and started wandering around. We found a nice trail that followed the edge of the harbour.

The trail led us right back to the ferry landing, and just as the ferry was approaching. What luck! A nice afternoon trip was had by all, although Quinn missed most of it as he was sleeping. He sleeps through all the good stuff it seems...