The rest of the South Island

Well, again another crazy week. I left you in Kaikoura with Anna and Matt whale watching.
We left Kaikoura and headed up the Kaikoura coast. It was beautiful, with gorgeous views from the road winding along the coast. We stopped en route to look at some fur seals just sunbathing on the rocks by the sea, they were so funny and only moving when they absolutely had to!
We also stopped to get some crayfish, cooked in a garlic butter. We demolished a whole one in about 5 minutes between us, it was so yummy.
We got to Blenheim in the evening and stopped by thye supermarket for food. They were selling mussels for 3 dollars a kilo, so we bought about 6 kilos worth for dinner! We cooked them in white wine, garlic, parsley and cream, they were so good! Almost couldnt finish them but they were too good not too!
The next day we got up to find it raining quite hard, but cleared by 10. So we hired some bikes and headed out on a wine tour of the area, the Marlborough wine region. We visited about 8/9 wineries in total and stopeed at lunch on the way back. The weather was really sunny but so windy and was quite hard wokr, especially when drunk! Still 10 bottles of bought wine later and we got back to the campa. We cooked dinner then headed to Picton to catch the 2235 ferry to Wellington, on the North Island. The ferry crossing took 3 hours, and would have been amazing views of the Queen Charlotte sound had it not been so dark! Eventually got off at 0130 in the morning and drove for about 40 minutes until we found a queit road to sleep in overnight!
So we made it to the North!!!
xx