cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/1465520

The morning started out fantastic again with clear skies and a slow start.

We headed in to Otaki village and stopped at a little second hand store to grab a few more books. Then headed to Wellington for the lunchtime sailing of the Interislander to the South Island. By this time the girls were bouncing off the walls of the camper. We had arrive with plenty of time to kill so had lunch and put a coffee on to brew – I guess that is one great advantage to traveling in a camper, you dont have to pay exorbitant prices for a coffee.

We used some of the time on the ferry to plan a place to camp for the night and found a likely spot just north of Blenheim.

As the crossing takes 3 and 1/2 hours it was late afternoon by the time we hit Picton and headed south to the Wairau River bypass mouth. It wasn’t too late when we arrived so I got out the spinning rod and had a few casts to see if there was anything around - with no luck. At this stage I asked the wife if I could take the kids down to the river mouth with the rod while she cooked dinner. Again no luck and we headed back to a hot meal in the dark.

The next day started off fine with a nice sun rise and a walk down to the river mouth where we chatted to a very talkative local.

It was off to sunny Nelson (via Canvis Town and Parlours - for a wet afternoon.

We decided to spend the rest of the day as well most of the next in Nelson to avoid the severe weather watch for Tasman Park and Motueka.

We took the opportunity of being city bound to shower, empty tanks, fill up on diesel and do some more food shopping. We did take the wet weather break as a chance to have Fish n Chips at the beach.