Blogs from Nelson, Nelson Region, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 22

Well, we are now in the South Island having left the North behind over the three hour ferry ride accross Cook Straight. Even the ferry was good, sailing from Wellington to Picton via Queen Charlotte Sound which is part of the excellent Marlborough Sounds region. The open sea was a bit rough (although apparantly not by their standards), but the sounds were calm, to Claire's relief. Picton seemed like a nice little port town but having only seen it from the boat and spending all of ten minutes there maybe we ain't the best to judge that. We then hit Nelson (via a wine tasting session at the village winery) where we stayed for four nights. Nelson is a really nice "city" (50 000 people) which due to its location in the south, south island manages ... read more

This was an early start for Monday a 7am pick up by shuttle bus to take us to the ferry port. We checked our bags in then went and waited in the lounge, We then were called to board the ferry I managed to get a recliner seat at the front of the boat so could see everything, the crossing was very calm. On arrival in Picton we boarded a bus and drove down to Nelson where I stopped 2 nights at the Paridaso hostel.... read more

I'm now in the South Island on the way to Christchurch. Just stopped in a little beach town on the way from Nelson where we stayed last night. I've completely lost track of the days and when I last wrote but I'll try to remember everything! (Oh and I've forgotten to bring my skydiving photos, but I will try to remember at some point!! They're in my rucksac under the coach at the mo!) After my last entry in Wellington I headed over to the city museum. It's a little bit like the Exploritory in Bristol for those in the know. (For those unfortunate enough not to have been there it's really cool! you can play with exibits and stuff) In Wellington museum there was a section dedicaited to the seismic activity because Wellington is situated ... read more

So I got the boat over to south island on Tuesday morning. People where saying how bad the crossing was when it is windy- which it was but it was fine and I actually slept most of the way over. I then drove across to Nelson. Once there I visited Founders Heritage Park which is a mini village with all the buildings the Europeans would have had when they first arrived over here. I then went to the WOW (World of Wearable art) museum. Which is full of dresses which are also art masterpieces. They had them on a revolving catwalk as well as a dark room with florescent pieces. There was also a video of the show from previous years. It is on at the moment but had become to big for Nelson so it ... read more

Hi All!! AS you may be able to guess from the subject title, I've had LOTS and LOTS of FUN this week (the capitals are to stress the inmportance of this!). What have I done, hmm hold struggling to rememberm, my mouths open but its not helping! Aah yes that's it, right Sunday we left Mount Cook and went to Fox Glacier. We got there in record time and were planning to book a hike on the glacier the next day, but after looking at the promotional photos, we decided that it looked crap and so changed our minds! Luckily, we had driven up to Fox Glacier before we arrived at the hostel, and so took some pictures of the land infront of the Glacier, as its really stunning. Unless you do a heli hike though ... read more