Aldan Lodge Motel Picton

... We had some breakfast at a cafe- I had crepes with strawberries and honey and yogart and some fresh orange juice- i'm worried about my lack of fruit and veg intake so have been eating salads and fruit for meals! We then walked back to the campsite and went on the really slow, expensive internet! Kat tells me her friend Anika is also travelling by herself over xmas so she's going to put me in touch with her, she's really nice so i'm happy about that! At ...

I woke up at 6 am and decided to just take a nice walk around Picton. The quaint adorable town doesn't have much to offer tourist wise, but it is still an amazing site. The greenery, the beach, the hills/montains in the distance, I couldn't ask for anything more nature wise. These are some pictures I took on the beach this morning...and my amazing shell I hope to bring home without any cracking.

... who was a very pleasant chap and very knowledgeable about the area and NZ in general.
After a lazy afternoon looking around Picton, visiting the sea horse centre and looking around the shops we caught to evening ferry to Wellington. The ferry was pretty well equipped so we decided to watch a film in the on board cinema to pass some of the 3 hour journey. On arrival in Wellington we found the hotel with the help of sat nav and discovered a small hitch ...

... but it was a pretty smooth trip.  We stopped on the way to walk across NZs longest swing (suspension bridge) across Buller Gorge.  I've attached some pictures.  Ruth didn't go as she new that there would be those who would cause the bridge to swing and she was ...

... past a salmon farm (snooze). We the landed at Ship Cove where Captain Cook first landed. Had a walk around. Took some funny pics beside a totem pole. We have entertain ourselves, like! back on the boat, then stopped at another place, fed some fish, patted a dog, delivered some more mail and back on boat. SOme more "mail" stops and back to land. Hit the Pipi patch (that's now what we call the "loo" since staying in that hostel).

... Freundin Claire, sie wurde 21, was in Neuseeland noch richtig gross gefeiert wird. Dort habe ich wieder viele nette neue Leute kennengelernt und wir hatten einen Heidenspass!!! So, eigentlich wollten wir am Sonntagnachmittag wieder mit der Faehre nach Wellington zurueck. Aber da wollte uns das Wetter einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen. Es war so stuermisch, das alle Faehren fuer Sonntag abgesagt wurden. Erst um 19 Uhr sollte wieder eine Faehre ...

... the harbour mouth we were greeted by about fifty small dolphins who zoomed around the ship, jumping out of the water and chasing each other. The day brightened into clear, sunny skies and we enjoyed a very calm sail across. There was another small pod of dolphins as we approached South Island and then we entered the narrow channels of South Island and were sailing down Queen Charlotte Sound until we reached the port of Picton.

... I woke up early and went for a run, there is a great path close to the hostel that runs along a river/creek/stream. Then I wandered around town, managing to get lost several times. Around three the owner of the hostel, Damian, took myself and several other people out to Indevin to get a look at where we would be working. They were busy preparing ...