Kiwi Summer on Film Again {Wellington edition}

Long walks with good friends, excellent picnic tins, strange little buildings, dazzling, bleach-everything sun, not-as-red-as-I-thought rocks and the promise of a seal colony {who knows, we got too hot and turned back}. Excellent weekend Kiwi-ness. Also, this was apparently where Frodo, Sam and Gollum reached the Black Gate in The Lord of the Rings. So I've picnic-ed at the Black Gate! Choice, as they say here :)