With no milk shift (although I did forget to turn off the alarm clock, whoops!) we had a lazy cuppa in bed but then back on the road. We stopped for a few hours in Palmerston North, a university town. Here we poked our heads into the Rugby Museum. Due to move to new premises in time for the world cup to get maximum visitors lots of stuff was crammed onto a small room.
We then could resist a quick visit to a charity shop. We made a purchase each and also saw a beautiful old chair for £30. We looked into shipping costs but quite frankly it would have been cheaper to buy a furniture shop on our return, shame.
Our campsite for the night was an hour down a dead end road. Well worth the scenic drive as hardly anyone there and our pitch was no more than 10ft from the sea. We must have been about 1 of only 3 camping that night. Yippee for kids going back to school. Our view was great, Castlepoint Lighthouse.
You can't beat a swim before breakfast and so that's what we did. Although technically it was more of a 'dip'. With our prime location being literally on the beach it was only 4 seconds from bed to water! We had our breakfast outside, being so close you could almost taste the sea. We then spent the day exploring the area. We climbed up to the lighthouse and all around the surrounding rocks and also walked along the deserted beach.
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