Last Journey in the South

Dear all

Yesterday we went to Nelson and I eventually managed to pick up a new camera. It’s not what I wanted, but as it’s so expensive in NZ it’s what I could afford here. Then we just had a wonder around town, a nice lunch and picked up some really nice fresh apples. It was pretty difficult to do too much in town as there were hundreds of people who had escaped from Christchurch trying to buy all their basic necessities. The campsites rooms were all full of evacuees including 23 guys from Palestine who had two friends still in hospital, injured from falling masonry.

Today we travelled from Nelson to Picton via the extremely picturesque Marlborough Sounds on the Queen Charlotte Drive. The views were amazing which is probably why some of the homes looked equally plush! We also happened along some nesting Shags who seems quite happy to pose as I snapped away!

At Picton we settled into our site for the night to be told that the campsite we had stayed at in Christchurch had been destroyed and would be closed in definitely as they had huge liquefaction issues and one side of their home was 1.5m higher than the other! I do hope they manage to get their very lovely site back up and running as they were such a lovely couple. 

Tomorrow we take the ferry back to North Island and finally meet up with Geordie.
Nite everyone.