On Saturday I sailed the ocean blue taking the Ferry from the North Island to the South Island. We floated across the Cook Strait and down through the Marlbourough Sounds this beginning my 11-day journey through the South Island of New Zealand. Really a trip to the South Island should be planned out through an entire month so you have enough time to actually enjoy the beauty instead of rushing from place to site to bus to tour. Giving yourself a plentiful amount of time will also allow you to do proper tramping (Multiple day hiking trips), skiing, mountain biking, bungy jumping, paragliding, skydiving, bush-walking, or any of the other crazy fun things to do here. I will be here for a year and can come back anytime so I'm cheating and taking a quick solo tour... :)
I was greeted at the Ferry dock, in a small town called Picton, by a friend of a friend from back home in Cambridge (one of those small world things!) Strait-away we went for a walk called ‘the Snout’ which was a beautiful incline up to an amazing view over the Marlbourough Sounds (the Sounds are comprised of a series of interlinked flooded valleys running down from the Richmond Mountain Ranges into the Tasman Sea at Cook Strait.) Fun fact…Marlbourough is the sunniest area in New Zealand & because of this there are many vineyards in the area. We then drove to the house located in a town called Blenheim (pronounced Blen-em) just south of Picton. The next morning we took a trip to Nelson Lake National Park, a popular tramping area about an hour drive away to do some hiking. Both days were beautiful and because the sun was out it was WARM (remember it's still winter here!!).
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