After spending 3 days in the capital, Wellington (cold, wet & windy while we were there!) it was time to leave the North Islan
d of New Zealand and take the 3 hour ferry trip over to South Island. It was a very rough crossing as you can see by this video I managed to take of the ferry going in the other direction to us!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66j6vazwLFg&NR=1
We docked in Picton, our home for the next 2 weeks, and we
have now already done many of the walking tracks in the area, including Snout Track where you can see CK & I posing at the tip of the peninsula. (Photo courtesy of Henry - music director on the Regent SS Voyager cruise ship - thanks Henry!) We decided to take a day trip to Blenheim, having heard on the news that it had won the award for being the sunniest pla
ce in New Z
ealand during 2008. As you can see by the photo it was an extremely sunny day when we were there - NOT! One of the things we really wanted to do while we were here was take a boat trip out on the Sounds. Picton is situated right on Queen Charlotte Sound and we found a trip that would take us on a cruise up to Ship Cove, drop us off to do a 4-5 hour walk on the Queen Charlotte Track and then pick us up again where the walk ended at Endeavour Inlet. The cruise was on the mailbo
at, which also delivers mail to the 80 or so permanent residents on the sounds, as there are no roads - only access is by boat! We bum
ped into Mr James Cook again at Ship Cove (after having encountered him many times in Australia!) It was reported to be his favourite place in New Zealand (being as it was the only place he visited more than twice in the whole of the South Pacific!) He crossed the Strait from North Island in 1770, naming it the Cook Strait after himself on the way! Well, I would have done the same, although Kynnersley Strait doesn't really sound quite right! Kerr Strait has a better
ring to it but sorry CK - Mr Cook got there before you! After surviving gale force
winds on the crossing, he spent over a month at Ship Cove repairing his ship "The Endeavour". We could certainly see why he liked this part of New Zealand - with its deserted sandy beaches, picturesque bays and panoramic views from the headlands. Wow! Can't really show you the full splendour of it all in just a photograph but hope these few give you a bit of a flavour of it! P.S Was only joking about the ferry crossing! Came across
that video on youtube and couldn't resist it! Fortunately we had a very calm crossing! But if we had seen that video before booking the ferry trip I think we would have forked out the extra to fly instead!!
After spending 3 days in the capital, Wellington (cold, wet & windy while we were there!) it was time to leave the North Islan
d of New Zealand and take the 3 hour ferry trip over to South Island. It was a very rough crossing as you can see by this video I managed to take of the ferry going in the other direction to us!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66j6vazwLFg&NR=1
We docked in Picton, our home for the next 2 weeks, and we
have now already done many of the walking tracks in the area, including Snout Track where you can see CK & I posing at the tip of the peninsula. (Photo courtesy of Henry - music director on the Regent SS Voyager cruise ship - thanks Henry!) We decided to take a day trip to Blenheim, having heard on the news that it had won the award for being the sunniest pla
ce in New Z
ealand during 2008. As you can see by the photo it was an extremely sunny day when we were there - NOT! One of the things we really wanted to do while we were here was take a boat trip out on the Sounds. Picton is situated right on Queen Charlotte Sound and we found a trip that would take us on a cruise up to Ship Cove, drop us off to do a 4-5 hour walk on the Queen Charlotte Track and then pick us up again where the walk ended at Endeavour Inlet. The cruise was on the mailbo
at, which also delivers mail to the 80 or so permanent residents on the sounds, as there are no roads - only access is by boat! We bum
ped into Mr James Cook again at Ship Cove (after having encountered him many times in Australia!) It was reported to be his favourite place in New Zealand (being as it was the only place he visited more than twice in the whole of the South Pacific!) He crossed the Strait from North Island in 1770, naming it the Cook Strait after himself on the way! Well, I would have done the same, although Kynnersley Strait doesn't really sound quite right! Kerr Strait has a better
ring to it but sorry CK - Mr Cook got there before you! After surviving gale force 
winds on the crossing, he spent over a month at Ship Cove repairing his ship "The Endeavour". We could certainly see why he liked this part of New Zealand - with its deserted sandy beaches, picturesque bays and panoramic views from the headlands. Wow! Can't really show you the full splendour of it all in just a photograph but hope these few give you a bit of a flavour of it! P.S Was only joking about the ferry crossing! Came across 
that video on youtube and couldn't resist it! Fortunately we had a very calm crossing! But if we had seen that video before booking the ferry trip I think we would have forked out the extra to fly instead!!
2 comments:
What a DUMP!!!!!!!
I am so loving your blog! I think you were both amazing to climb the mountain; what an achievement! And the places you are visiting are out of this world! Keep having fun!
Carol
xx
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