Well, it was goodbye to the cloudy North Island and on to a 4 hour ferry crossing to the clear skies of the South Island. A longer journey than I had expected as the Islands are so close, but due to the Windy Cook Strait in between, we had to go all the way out to come back in again! But we did float through the picturesque regions of the Queen Charlotte Sound and Malborough Sounds where the water was so calm and blue and the lush green islands were all dotted around all over the place...it was very pretty!
Then we arrived in pretty Picton! The hostel was a sweet, little, bohemian place with free apple crumble and ice cream. This meant I wanted to stay longer but as there wasn't much to do, it was time to move on again especially after a crazy siren woke me up at 7am (apparently used to call volunteers to the fire station, but I mistook it for an old world war two siren ringing out...crazy!)
Well, it was goodbye to the cloudy North Island and on to a 4 hour ferry crossing to the clear skies of the South Island. A longer journey than I had expected as the Islands are so close, but due to the Windy Cook Strait in between, we had to go all the way out to come back in again! But we did float through the picturesque regions of the Queen Charlotte Sound and Malborough Sounds where the water was so calm and blue and the lush green islands were all dotted around all over the place...it was very pretty!
Then we arrived in pretty Picton! The hostel was a sweet, little, bohemian place with free apple crumble and ice cream. This meant I wanted to stay longer but as there wasn't much to do, it was time to move on again especially after a crazy siren woke me up at 7am (apparently used to call volunteers to the fire station, but I mistook it for an old world war two siren ringing out...crazy!)
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