Around NZ - Port Ohope

Whakatane is a beautiful city. There were lots of beaches. (see above) Our task was to find an accomodation for ourselves since we made no pre-bookings. We drove past the motel strip which all showed No vancancy. Someone recommended us to try the Ohope beach area. We went and again, the motels were all taken. We were thinking of driving to the next town to search for our accomodation until we came across this B&B sign. It still has 'VACANCY' sign on.Me and pinkcocoa and N went to search for the house and jake tried ringing the hosts as the house has a hidden entrance from the main road. We were so fortunate for Mary and Barry who took us in. they are the nicest couple. We have our own ensuite and room access and we look outside to the gorgeous gardens (See pic below)

We asked where we can find fish and 'chups' ..hehe. (Still sticking to introducing kiwi things to pinkcocoa).M&B suggested we could try the port ohope F&C. So off we went. the queue was pretty long( above pic)...we had to wait about 20mins for our dinner to arrive.

Our dinner - the fish, the potato and kumara chips.

Port Ohope at dusk. Many people fishing at the jetty. An old uncle was very eager to show N what he has caught. pic was taken before our dinner arrived.

After dinner. The sky has changed colour.

Mary and Barry's garden. It's simply gorgeous. She had mostly NZ natives and also some veges patch(tomato and zuchinni)
and herbs planted in terracota pots.

During breakfast, we had cereals and toasts and tea. Jake had eggs (poached). Jake can't stop praising Mary's poached eggs. they were really perfect. ( not sure if he's hinting for me to poach eggs for him but honey, my poached eggs won't look like Mary's .hehehe.)
We tried some nice jams and it turned out to be home made PLUM jam. Mary had to give us a bottle to take home.