Today we are getting ready to head down to the southern island. We will be flying out tomorrow into Christchurch and will end up staying in the area until school starts. This morning we headed to another beach and continued our shell hunting extravaganza. All along the beach we found Oyster shells and Paua shells.
This was our first stop this morning, and our final shot at shell hunting for the stay here in New Plymouth/ Inglewood.
This is one of the bags of shells that we collected today. We found numerous Oyster and Paua shells all along the coast.
After shell hunting, we were waiting to take Carolyn's mom grocery shopping so we stopped of by another look out point and got a good view with the seagulls.
After we finished shopping Carolyn took us to a local lake back off the main roads, its a piece of government ground.
This is a Paua Shell, these are what we spent two days hunting for. Pāua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (there is only genus Haliotis), known in the United States and Australia as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells.
Tomorrow afternoon we will be flying from New Plymouth to Wellington to Christchurch. Christchurch is where Lincoln University is located and where we will be going to school. Once we get to Christchurch we have plans for the University to pick us up at the airport and we plan on heading further south before the semester begins on the 28th.
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