Day 2: Wellington > Picton

Update time!

So we got up at 5:00am local time this morning for the ferry, only it turns out we were only 5 minutes by taxi to the dock so we ended up sitting outside the ferry terminal waiting for an hour for someone to show up. It was barely daylight and of course, cold (heard that enough for it to be unecessary to keep repeating it?).

The ferry trip was beautiful, out through the bay and then through Marlborough Sounds to Picton.

Leaving the bay

Looking back at Wellington

The headland again

After a cooked breakfast, we both sat down to chill out for a while (inside, out of the wind) and I managed to fall asleep for an hour and apparently missed some pretty stunning mountain views coming into the Sounds, but I did manage to get some shots of the Sounds themselves, which you'd think were tropical environs given the number of people out on the water. And the view.

Marlborough Sounds #1

 

Marlborough Sounds #2

Coming into Picton

And after arriving in Picton, we picked up the car and found Fiona's brother's hotel (Jasmine Court, really nice!) then went for a drive to a place called Karaka Point, with a short walk down to the waterline. I'll go through those photos later - now I'm going to have a well earned snooze. All this sitting on my ass is tiring me out! Heath is already asleep. Hard life we have...