New Zealand - South Island
May 28th 2009 After departing "Windy Welly" we had an unusually calm ferry trip over to Picton on the south island. Our hostel there was called Tombestone, named after the neighbouring graveyard. The front door was in the shape of a coffin lid and there was free breakfast - always a bonus (the breakfast that is not the funny shaped door). From Picton we took a water taxi (or boat) up to a section of the Quee
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