Timaru and some sunshine...

 Sunshine in Timaru! We took the shuttle provided by the town into the town and were rewarded with a nice pub lunch and a farmers' market/craft fair. I bought two pairs of Christmas earrings. Wait until next year!

Speights Ale is the local brewery and we each had a nice ale (is there any other kind?) at Speights Ale House. I had an APA Pale Ale and Randy had an Old Dark Ale.

The original sign with a slight change of ownership!

Randy's Old Dark Ale

All the beers on tap. And one of the barmaids, all the servers were women.

Speights is housed in the oldest building Timaru.

Don't know the name of the flowering tree (we were told its Maori name and I promptly forgot it). We were told it rarely blooms!

Where I bought my Christmas earrings.

Some of the other craftspeople.

A nice short afternoon in a lovely little town. On to Oban on Steward Island, the furthest south we will have ever been. Previously we had been to Bluff, the southernmost town on the South Island. Oban is further south but only accessible by air or ferry. Or Cruise Ship.