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Picton Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Picton, New Zealand
South Island (Picton to Christchurch)
So, a few days after staying with Phill we headed off to South Island on the ferry from Wellington to Picton, got on the bus to Christchurch and stayed with Marie for a night (thanks again Marie!!) and then pick up the rental car the next morning to head ...
Picton/ The Queen Charlotte Track
The next day we headed to the little town of Picton, gateway to the Queen Charlotte walking Track. Now the QCT is described as hiking for non-hikers i.e. scenic and flat. So being the brave adventurers we are we headed off on a three day, two ...
Set sail for the south island
I only had one day here as i was quite keen to get to Kaikoura, but for a busy port it is really nice. The marlborough sounds surrounding it give it excellent walking possibilities and excellent views too. The hostel i stayed in called The Villa was ...
The starting line of 71km
With tent, sleeping bag, and a change of clothes at the ready, as well as some essential food supplies, I left Picton this morning, joining a water taxi that would take me to my starting point for the Queen Charlotte Track, Ship Cove. Ship Cove was the ...
Green Shelled Mussel captial of the World
YUM - Green Mussels (I liked them baked better than steamed - get the all the flavors they are really good) Ridiciulously windy roads Ferry from North Island to South ...
Kiwi bussen
Vi rejser med Kiwi Experience paa New Zealand. Og det er absolut en helt genial maade at rejse paa. Man ser landet og stopper op forskellige steder og kigger natur. Guiden har styr paa alle de adventures man skulle faa lyst til. Og man moeder en del andre ...
North Island Adventures
... performed by mini human holograms - I'd never seen anything like it apart from in Star Wars. Amazing! From Wellington, I caught a ferry to Picton in the south island and here I am. For the next week I'll be working on a farm, picking and cracking nuts, ...
Picton to Wellington: South Island to North Island
... stayed there for much longer. But we had to explore the North Island, and hoped that a week and a half would be enough time. Picton is a small town and we didn't do much there. We went to the police station to get our documents certified so we could get ...
We Have Conquered The North Island Of New Zealand
... sooner, but we have been on a whirl wind tour of the North Island of New Nealand. It has been an amazing adventure and New Zealand is wonderful! We rolled into Auckland, NZ around 8am after a 4am flight from Fiji. Needless to say we were pooped, but ...
Picton
... was miserable so we didn't venture out much.When we finally did Alex beat me at mini golf... again! bad times. Highlight of picton was free choc pudding at our guest house - immence!!! Next stop Kaikoura farm park, going to be an interesting few ...
Queen Charlotte track
... ride from Picton, at Ship cove which was where Cook parked up the Endeavour and the Resolution while he explored this area of New Zealand. Our first day was a gentle 15kms with the sun shining the whole way. Our first night was spent at ...
Stopover at Picton
... washed the car and returned it to the hire company. We then took the bus back north along the sunny coast and were in Picton by the evening. The coast here was littered with seals just relaxing on the rocks but sadly we couldn't get out to see them ...
Cook Straight
Took the ferry from Wellington to Picton -- beautiful, photos to follow when I find a 'puter that'll let ...
Heading South
... and hear about their lives and all the cool things that they have been doing with their vacations. My roommate in Picton was Sophie, another extremely sweet and friendly German girl. Sophie is also working and has been planting potatoes and picking ...
Picton and the Marlborough Sounds - chillax town!
... snorkel in the sea...was so refreshing but too cold for katherine!!!! the boat picked us up at 3pm and we eventually got back to picton at 4:30pm after more trips round different sounds! It was a great day out, very good value for money at $61.50 for the ...
Der erste Blick auf die Suedinsel....
30/12/2007 .... war der Wahnsinn!!! In der Nacht sind wir in einer kleinen Bucht gelandet und heut bei dem wunderschoenen Wetter war der Ausblick wunderschoen!! Waehrend der Fahrt Richtung Marahau sind wir an einigen Wochenendmaerkten mit frischem Obst ...
Picton
After the 3 hour ferry journey we jumped off in Picton. I said goodbye to my group and found my way to the jetty to catch a boat over to my hostel. Lochmara Lodge is in Lochmara may in Queen Charlotte Sound. It's about 10 mins from Picton by boat (no ...
Working Girl
... , not that I was uber upset by that though! We cruised into Picton via the Marlborough Sounds, which are the only real sounds in New Zealand, the rest are called Sounds but are actually Fiords (this is a lesson for another day though so I won’t get ...
Ferry to the South Island / Faehre auf Sued Insel
5th August - Trip to the South Island There are 2 options to get you to the South Island of New Zealand, by a nice 45 minute flight over or a 3 hour ferry journey over some of the roughest part of sea in the world, which option did we choose, the ferry ...
Nearly missing the bastard ferry.
... The ferry crossing is very beautiful, the last part being a meander through the fjord like coastline of Marlborough Sounds. The New Zealand coastline features a lot of sounds, long, wide ocean inlets according to dictionary.com; also a fishes bladders. ...
Jolly Roger!
... spent the day in Picton where we did a walk along Bob’s Bay just before the rain started again. We had a quick wander around Picton but there wasn’t really much to see so we went to find a holiday park to stay at that night. The place we ...
Early Birds
... bags. Michelle slept for the entire journey and didn't realise that the ship had even moved when she was woken up at 9am in Picton, the gateway to the south island. She needed the sleep she'd to drive to Kaikoura, on the east coast, home to seals, ...
Bully for Buller
... ; E 174° 00.9' Via Kaiteriteri Having indulged by going along the west coast yesterday, I now had to get back to the Picton region in order to be able to catch the morning ferry tomorrow. That meant no time for kayaking in Kaiteriteri, but I headed ...
Still WWOOFing
This entry is going to be a quick one just to update on the rest of the time that I was working in Picton. To be honest I didn't really do anything but the work in the morning and then walk around Picton on the afternoon. There was a day when Rhi, Andrea ...
Dolphin Magic
... people got quite close. Honestly, it was the most mind blowing thing I have ever seen, and it bought tears to my eyes. Drove to Picton ready to catch the early ferry in the morning. We are staying at another P.O.P in a nice big field, ready for our 6am ...
Südinslä adee
Mir si in Picton a cho. Hiä gö mir uf d Fährä richtig Wellington ufd Nordinslä. Üs het d Südinslä unheimläch gfauä. Mir heis schön gha und äs het aus klapet und ds outo louft immerno! ;) ...
heading back to the north island
... stories. also meet brian from cali. a science school teacher-very soft spoken, compassionate, adn a marathon hiker. he's hitched all over new zealand-true keroac style! we all got on the subject of the war- and we were amazed by the sympathies that were ...