Lazy Fish Picton

So our journey still is keeping us at the Lazy Fish for a few more days. We have had ourselves some beautiful sunny weather and it looks like we are going to have rain until we depart. James is quite excited to watch the election results come in on our ...

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... to offer so we spent a large amount of time over the following day watching films. I was happy. Before you call me lazy and sad, a cyclone hit Picton the day we arrived so there was not a lot we could have done anyway. The day after we were leaving ...

... morning we awoke to find cloud low over the mountain once more; we broke camp and started our leisurely day drive up north to Picton, where we'd agreed to meet up with Mike and Katie for a weekend at the family 'bach' (short for bachelor pad, meaning a ...

Hello all, so tomorrow is the big day... we are heading out from our WWOOFing experience at the Lazy Fish and going into Picton to get food ready for our first multi day tramp. We are hiking the Queen Charloette Track (qctrack.co.nz) for 4 days. We ...

KIWI EXP - DAY 21/22 – QT to Kaikoura to Picton to Wellington (again) I wake up at 6am, 'MURDER' written on my arm in what I mistake for blood, which then properly wakes me up before I realise it’s the paint from the Base bar. Before catching ...

... lighter, we hit the main road, and were headed for Kaikoura, a town situated on a peninsula, roughly halfway between Christchurch and Picton. Along the way, Kane told us the Maori story of how New Zealand was created. The North Island is a huge fish that ...

... come up from Queenstown over the weekend. The three of us decided to organise our trip along the Queen Charlottle track when we got to Picton, so we just spent the night in Nelson drinking and playing cards before getting the bus at 8.30am the next ...

... had a quick nap and then had a 4 hour trek to the seal colony and what not. very long day. Burnt pretty good. After the long trek we head back to town and treated are slefs to fish and chips. Lovely dinner. And then the next Day was off to ...

... , so fire up the heater, but have to switch it off in the night. Pretty good sleep, all things considered. Thursday 14 Feb - Picton - Christchurch Up about 8, but hang around reading and talking till almost 10, and have to pack in a hurry. Do diary and ...

... After we ate sandwiches for breakfast, and Tanja had made a hot tea each, we drove around the coastline towards Picton, and discovered a hidden away little beach called Whites Bay. It had received the first communications cable from the North Island in ...

... out across the sound and even the post boxes were a little special!! At last we came back to sea level and cut through Picton before travelling on past Blenheim. Here for once the scenery got a little bland! After the vineyards had petered out there was ...

... you guessed it fish and chips with some other people from our bus who were on the boat. Weds 5th Nov - Kaikoura - Picton - Wellington Well cheery Duncan was late picking us up!  We headed north and inland today to Picton through the ...

On Friday evening 21 October, at about 10pm, we met up with Mike, Katie, Mike's sister Nicky and golden retriever Thomas at Picton. They'd just driven up from Christchurch after work, and the two of us had spent a couple of hours after our wine touring in ...

... were pleased to see a calm sunny day, as we had heard plenty of horror stories about the 3-hour ferry from Wellington to Picton across the Cook straits. As it turned out, the crossing was the smoothest ferry journey that we have ever taken. On leaving ...

... - a small town with not much in it but the place we are staying to break up the trip from Picton to Greymouth.  Staying in a place called the Lazy Cow was interesting.  Because there was really nothing to do here but sit you basically were a ...

... last night. After packing and having some breakfast, I left my luggage in the dining room and then headed out to the Picton library where I managed to get onto their wifi for free. After doing internet banking and catching up on emails, it was already ...

... his haircut, we make some comments on the council notice board (!) and get Fash & Chups before checking into our ferry. Leave Picton (and the South Island) at 7pm and arrive at Windy Wellington at 9.15pm. Rowena's Lodge where we intended to camp is full ...