We made it to the south island. We got up this morning to a very cloudy and slightly rainy Wellington. Picton (where the ferry lands on the south island) was about the same weather. However, as soon as we started driving south, the weather cleared up, just like it always does when we drive south. :)
Right now we are in Kaikoura. We stopped here for lunch and while we were here I figured I’d get the pictures transferred to a CD and update the blog at the same time.
Our plan is to head down to Christchurch tonight and then set out from there tomorrow morning on a three day driving trip which will end in Queenstown. Along the way we go through Arthur’s Pass, the Franz Josef glacier, Fox glacier, etc…
So far the driving in the south island is pretty sweet. Great scenery, especially around here (Kaikoura), on one side you have the Southern Alps and on the other is the Pacific Ocean. I guess that’s nothing new to you kids who live in BC. :) And speaking of the roads, it seems they don’t really believe in guard rails here, on these crazy windy roads though the mountains, there is basically a cliff just off the shoulder of the road and no guard rail! Makes it that much more exciting if you ask me.
By the way, we have no ideas where we will be staying from one day to the next so if anyone needs to get in touch with us, send ME an email (Amy can’t remember her password). Alternatively you can use the ‘Contact Me’ page on this site and the email will get to me.
I think that’s it for now, we’ve got at least another couple of hours of driving and I think we only have around 1.5 hours of daylight left so we should get going.