After 2 months in the South Island of New Zealand, we are spending our last night in the port town of Picton where we started off on January 18, 2011. The time has flown by. Signs of fall are in the air here. Apples and hops are being harvested and the undersides of New Zealand's symbolic fern is turning silver. We've enjoyed the beauty here and the people. It was appropriate to end our last few days here with a trip to Farewell Spit and Cape Farewell.
Our trip here was the day of the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. What a terrible catastrophe for the people in that region. Because of the geography of Farewell Spit and the protected bays of Nelson and Abel Tasman, folks here were not too concerned about the Tsunami warnings for NZ in this area. Nevertheless, we did not sleep well on our beach side camp that night.
From Lake Wanaka we worked our way north up the west coast enjoying beautiful headlands, glaciers, river valleys, blowholes, pancake rocks, suspension bridges, gold mines, coal mines, black swans, and waterfalls. One of the highlights of our last week here was a kayaking on the Queen Charlotte Sound. We leave tomorrow on the ferry to the North Island and our last month in New Zealand. Enjoy the captioned slideshow above or full screen on our Picasa Web Album.
All is well with the 2 Sail R's.
