Tuesday 11th April 2017
Sleeping in a little due to our early morning arrival, we had a late start, we collected our hire car, went shopping for breakfast and lunch groceries and headed to a park to eat. We decided we would stay in Christchurch for the next couple of days. We booked a 2BR cabin in a caravan park and we able to check straight in which was great. After unloading we made some lunch and headed off to the Christchurch Botanical Gardens in South Hagley Park. The weather was pretty dreary, wet and cold. Not to be discouraged we walked around the gardens, through a number of different gardens, hothouses and rose gardens. There were some by pretty flowers, different trees and it was very pretty. The gardens were very green. We walked along the Avon River that meandered through the Gardens. It starts near the airport and travels 26km through Christchurch out to the ocean. We then walked towards the city and had a look at the Canterbury College which has the same facade as the Christchurch Cathedral.