At about 3pm or so Dennis (one of Waricks friends) arrived and we were off for the long drive down to Bluff. Dave had just flown into ChCh after 3 months around Asia, so good to see he was getting straight back into the life down here!
So after loading up the kayaks on the lawn (nice lawn ‘innit? ;) we set off. The first stop was to the Cookie Time Factory. It’s an NZ owned and operated factory – also currently the world record holders for having the worlds largest cookie..
Cookie Time’s World Record beating cookie was…
• 487.15 square metres in area
• 24.9 metres in diameter
• 2.5 centimetres thick
And it contained…
• 13 tonnes of ingredients
• 2.5 tonnes of chocolate – over one million chocolate hips!
• 3.1 tonnes of sugar – enough for 600,000 cups of tea!
• 2 tonnes of butter – enough to spread over 400,000 slices of toast!
• 24,000 eggs – enough to have one a day for 65 years!
• 4.5 tonnes of flour – enough for 12,000 batches of scones!
And it’s also a place I wish I’d discovered a little earlier! here you can buy monster bags of broken cookies for cheap… hmmmm.. so much for getting fit again.
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The van didn’t exactly have what you could call seats. Well, in the front it did, in the back we had two deckchairs and Waricks mattress.. comfortable though :)
We also stopped off at the Moaeraki Boudlers – south of Omaru. These boulders were formed in much the same way as a pearl is – layers of mudstone formed around a piece of wood / shell / something – on the sea bed ages ‘n ages ago… There’s also the much more beautiful Maori legend..
According to South Island accounts the Moaeraki boulders were formed when kūmara(sweet potato) brought in the Ārai-te-uru canoe washed overboard and became petrified on the beach.
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It did take the best part of 9 hours to drive down and arrived into some pretty windy weather and our first night on our boat – The Crystal Voyager
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