After leaving the walnut supply we headed down the Kaikoura coast toward Christchurch as it was dark and raining last may when we came down and we saw none of it. A very slow trip as there was so many sections of road work to repair after the devestating earth quakes and it will be some time yet before they are finished.
Much of the rail link and the roadway had been inundated with literal hillsides that had shaken down over them and wit the rolling of the ground in the quake there had been a 6 meter rising of some of the seabed which exposed a great deal of the shellfish beds and destroyed the seal grounds etc with so much of it being changed forever.
Some of the newly constructed road that is two way even if it is very slow speed (30kph is under 20mph)
