Good road trip today as we retraced our steps a little back to Blenheim and then South on the East coast road to our destination Kaikoura where we find a fantastic apartment waiting for us just a short drive from the centre.

Rarely have we encountered any parts of the countryside without trees but today this happened for quite a long spell. We have tried to guess how many trees we have seen on our journey so far and it is a very hard thing to estimate. When you see an entire mountain covered in Pines from a long way away, that is a lot. When that continues for hours it gets to be even more.

At some points our route is very wiggly as shown on satnav. but then when you get to sea level it does calm down quite a bit. Here we found a very interesting peninsular with strange exposed rocks with groves and small holes in them. Some had metal tags stuck hard into them. Why? Is it to do with Muscle or Lobster fishing? Signs at the car park detail quotas for amateur fishermen, so it could be. Green-lipped mussels are one of the most abundant shellfish around the South Island’s rocky coast. A few found their way into Liz's lunch bowl with a coconut and chilli sauce.

Perching on this beach is my new installation. A step up from 'A Kiwi In Flight' this new work draws on Marcel Duchamp's 'ready made' conceptualisation. Kaikoura's leading critic has pronounced it a 'masterpiece of simplicity', but others say that massively undervalues it. Drawing as it does on the arc motif and with only two points touching the Earth, I have entitled it 'Camper-van Tailback'.

Evening draws on slowly,, the Sun shining and the washing machine playing its own songs. Darwin fills a pipe with some Old Toby, draws deeply on it and says to Freud 'This insular border policy of not allowing other spores and biodiversity into the country may not be good for my theories in the long run. How will things evolve if they are not allowed to react with foreign bodies'? Freud predictably replies "Their policy is that part of them which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. It represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to your crackpot ideas, which contain your passions".

So the tourist must leave their Decaf Tea Bags at home and buy locally? The Donald chips in. Co-Pilot has the last word on the rocks we saw today: The rocks along the Kaikoura Peninsula, especially those exposed by the 2016 earthquake, often have small holes and crevices. These holes are typically formed by marine organisms like mollusks and barnacles that bore into the rock, as well as natural weathering processes over time. A seal rolls around on the rocks laughing.