Nelson

Found this beautiful old church while meandering through Nelson one weekend

 

This looks to me to be a stairway to nowhere.....

The Stain glass windows were BEAUTIFUL!

The nerd me LOVED this organ. It was so pretty.

The organist sat in this box up above the congregation. There was actually an organist there that day. It was pretty cool to listen to. 

 Can't come here and not hike to the place known as the Centre of New Zealand!

The view on the way up:

The view from the top:

New Zealand does sunsets really well :)

The drive from Nelson back down to Christchurch (about 5 hours) was so pretty. Ocean on one side, mountains on the other!

 

Coming down the Kaikoura Coast