Our Easter escape heads north from Christchurch to lunch with Vicki and Andrew at Coldstream Farm on the way to Kaikoura. Drive the transformed coastal highway to Blenheim and onto the Airshow at Omaka. Discover the beauty of Pelorus Sound and Kenepuru Sound on a cruise to a mussel farm.
It’s exciting and heart stopping to see Omaka’s Heritage Centre’s vintage aircraft leave the hangars and take to the skies. With mock airfield attacks, ground theatre and pyrotechnics just for starters, the organisers are promising more than a few extra tricks up their sleeve.
5 Day / 4 Night Tour departing Auckland, with stays in Kaikoura and Blenheim, with the highlight being 3 days at the Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow in Omaka
Day 1: Auckland - Christchurch - Kaikoura
On arrival in Christchurch we drive to Coldstream Farm to lunch with Vicki Collett and Andrew Dalziel. In Kaikoura we visit Fyfe House, built in the 1840s on whalebones, and the “New Normal, the Kaikoura Earthquake Exhibition”.
We stay at The White Morph right across from the ocean in Kaikoura.
- Home hosted lunch and South Island hospitality at Coldstream farm
- An evening walk on the seaside in Kaikoura, right across from our accommodation
Day 2: Kaikoura - Blenheim - Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow, Omaka
We drive up the coast road to Blenheim and visit the Omaka Heritage Centre’s Knights of the Sky, First World War Exhibition. At the airfield we watch the Twilight Extravaganza and fireworks.
We stay three nights in the Scenic Hotel, Marlborough in Blenheim.
- The new Kaikoura Coastal road
- Opening night fireworks at the airshow
Day 3: Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow, Omaka
Enjoy a full day at the Airshow from 10am to 4pm. Your Gold Pass provides grandstand seating and access to the Gold Pass Marquee where lunch is served and complimentary tea and coffee.
In the late afternoon we return to our hotel and dine in this evening.
- A full day to enjoy the airshow
Day 4: Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow, Omaka
Watch the aerial displays on the final day at the Airshow featuring First World War and Second World War aircraft and the world’s only air worthy Avro Anson Mk1 along with other classy vintage machines.
We return to the hotel for dinner.
- The final day finale of the Airshow
- Our final dinner together in the South Island
Day 5: Blenheim - Kenepuru Sound - Auckland
We cruise from Havelock through the inner Pelorus Sound and out into Kenepuru Sound to a Greenshell mussel farm.
We return to the Slip Inn at Havelock Marina for lunch then transfer to Blenheim Airport for your flight to Auckland.
- Cruise the Kenepuru Sound and try fresh mussels
- You'll be dropped off right at your door back in Auckland
