About 15km north of Oamaru there is a popular and award winning restaurant. The lady who runs the whole establishment - gift shops, peacocks, exotic birds, huge vegetable garden - fruit trees, and a fort for the children, has a reputation for being hardworking but quirky! She is building this castle for her home complete with drawbridge and moat! It is currently being clad in Oamaru stone.
Three good things:
1. A delicious lunch at the restaurant with hand cut chips and aoli.
2. Creating an elaborate charade for our daughter and husband to take them to Tekapo where they want to go but not telling them.
3. A good supply of hot water - outside hot water cylinder run by a heat pump.
Well I hope your daughter doesn't look at 365 or the cats out of the bag! Tekapo how lovely, I will always remember the colour of the water there! This is an amazing place......the lady must earn some money to be able to afford to build that!
What an interesting place! How fantastic that she is building a castle with a drawbridge! I like the sound of you secretly getting your daughter and husband to Tekapo! What a great surprise for them! The name sounds familiar - I think I may have visited on my NZ tour. I will have to check. Fav for your stunning shot with that fabulous sky and reflections!
@happypat We managed to get away with it for a while then admitted we were the shuttle. They both said, 'very well done" John is very good at pretending!
Great processing and reflections. It sounds like a really interesting place. Did you post something about it a long time ago? The part about the exotic animals, and the drawbridge and moat sounds familiar.
what a beauty and you certainly did it proud. what a fantastic shot, love what you did with it, congrats on the pp page. this is so very lovely. how nice to have one's own castle! like that she is doing a fort for the children. fav
