Wainui Bay and Tai Tapu

After an early morning walk along the beach we headed over the hill by the direct route to Duvauchelle, the little settlement where the Akaroa Golf Course is. We had a round on their slopey, creek-crossed, interesting course and didn't play too badly for all the hazards.

Number 8 tee

Afterwards we met up with 3 of the last ladies to leave from their morning competition and found that we had just missed meeting the sister of George, the long-serving barman/ handyman at Omanu, who was actually the very first person we met when we started playing there. We didn't know he had a sister here or that his family ran the local Post Office many years ago!
After golf we headed out past French Farm to Wainui Bay where we could just park up on the beach picnic area for the night. A pretty spot with views of the Harbour entrance and Akaroa across the other side. It was nice listening to the gentle wavelets breaking on the beach and big stones.

Wainui Bay

Today (Thursday) we trundled on to Tai Tapu, a tiny place 6 km from Lincoln with a popular Cafe where we only bought some milk and an icecream each as we had already had lunch in the gourmet "Cafe Debussy". We drove to the Tai Tapu golf course round the corner and played yet another round on their flat, park-like 9 holer. They are happy for is to stay overnight in the carpark although they will lock us in.