It’s been raining for two days – not heavily, but enough to get things nice and wet. I doubt we’ll be irrigating any more this season. But Monday – Easter Monday – was an absolute cracker of a day. We had a couple of people staying in the farm cottage, and we took them up to Kaikoura to go swimming with the dolphins. While they did that, we walked round the point and admired the seals.

Rather begs for a caption, doesn’t it? [EOS 300D with 90-300mm zoom on full extension, roughly equivalent to 480mm on 35mm]