Picton Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

Well our amazing trip is about to come to an end. Our final 9 riding days were spent riding in a rental car as we experienced bike meltdown and had to rent a car in Westport on the north part of the west coast. Although this trip has been fabulous, we have had more equipment failure in the last 6 weeks than on all our previous bicycle trips comb...

We hung out in Wellington for the day, having beers and generally having a great time. We slept in Betsy in a car park in the middle of the city - can you imagine doing that in Glasgow City Centre. We got up at 6.30 the next morning and made our way to the ferry. As we were standing in the queue a guy came up to us, stuck a microphone in my face...

Managed to finally find a place to stash the illegal satan car in Wellington. Jumped on the ferry to the south island Friday and plan to meet up with Jesse sometime next month after he's done working in Wellington and has gotten down here. The ferry I caught left at 6:30 pm and arrived a little after nine. It was a smooth voyage with a good suns...

weiter gehts! 16/02/2008 Der letzte Tag auf der Suedinsel! Das Aquarium in Picton konnten wir uns nicht entgehen lassen. Jetzt haben wir schon mal alle Fische gesehen, die wir bald aus dem Meer fangen werden :) Um 2 Uhr Nachmittag hat unsere Faehre nach Wellington in Picton abgelegt und wir muessen uns von der Suedinsel verabschieden, hoffentlic...

Longue journee de deplacement aujourd'hui, car je devais quitter l'auberge de jeunesse a 7h du matin pour prendre le bateau entre l'ile du nord et l'ile du sud sous un ciel gris. 3 heures de bateau et environ 5 heures d'autobus avant d'arriver a destination. Heureusement, une fois arrive sur l'ile sud, nous avions retrouve le soleil. Mais tout c...

Hi there all. Hope you enjoyed your journey through the north island. Now its time for the south. Nelson Our ferry journey to the south island was really spectacular. The scenary from the Malborough Sounds was out of this world. Better than any ferry crossing over the english channel to France!! We stayed in Nelson on our first night and apart f...

Hit the South Island a few days ago, and hopped off the bus in Picton to walk the Queen Charlotte Track, which is a 71km track running down the Queen Charlotte Sound. The track took me 4 days carrying full kit including a tent, which broke down into: Day 1: 25km Day 2: 20km (got up late) Day 3: 5km (rest day) Day 4: 22km It was supposed to be 3 ...

Well this is it, time to leave south Island. Our acqantance was too short but time moves on and I have other places to be and people to meet. In memory of my time here I hve had Vicky commision a painting, 'Ode to south Island' which I was hoping to unveil here for al to see. Sadly the computers here won't let me open email attachmanets so I can...

Thurs (29th) I left Kaikoura fairly early but it seemed to take ages to get to Picton for some reason. Really didn't do much here either. I should have gone for a long walk along the Queen Charlotte Track which is supposed to be lovely, but to be honest, I just wasn't in the mood and for once it was lovely and hot so I just lazed in the garden o...

It rained and rained and rained some more on the journey back up north to Picton. We had tried to book a hostel in Nelson, which is supposed to be one of the most hip and happening towns on the south island, it must be because we hadn't a hope of getting accommodation of any kind. Travelling through the wine region of Marlborough we could just a...