Kurow - McCaw Country

Travelling further inland from Oamaru, the next place we arrived at was the small town of Kurow. Residents here are justifiably proud of Richie McCaw and want to erect a 2.4 metre high bronze statue to honour their favourite son.

Walking along the main street of Kurow was this beautiful home frontage, right on the footpath.

More main street buildings

Perhaps this bike is to recognise that the A2O (Alps to Ocean) Cycle Trail goes right through Kurow.

 A short distance back east of Kurow is this historic place where you can see Maori rock drawings. It's right on the side of the main highway, well signposted and easy to find. There is a long wall of interesting rock formations running from near the road across the paddocks off to the west (roughly).

The portion where the Maori artwork is has been protected by these fences.

There are four of these signs showing what the drawings are that you're looking for as some of them are "faded" and quite hard to see. Note the horse and rider (B) and what looks like a ship below it.

Here they are on the wall. The horse and rider top left. You might be able to identify some of the other artwork from the picture above. This was one of the easiest sections to identify actual artwork. In other places, whole sections had been removed from the face of the rock and apparently they're displayed in museums around New Zealand.

The entire cliff face was a perfect home for pigeons, with plenty of crevices and holes for them to roost in.

On the way back to Kurow we stopped at this cute little cellar door to taste some Kurow wines. River-T Estate are in the process of building a larger, new cellar door, but in the meantime, this is it! Their wines were interesting, and we especially enjoyed their Pinot Noir and Riesling.

Just next door to them was the Kurow Winery who had a few different labels: Pasquale, Kurow Village, Black Star and Otiake were four that I noticed.

Again the Pinor Noir (Penny Red) and the Riesling appealed to us. The pizza we bought here was one of the best we've had in a long time. You can choose your own toppings—we had blue cheese, mushrooms and chorizo. YUMMY! I don't think I'll be able to drive past this place again without stopping in for one. From memory it was only $20. A delicious late lunch.

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