Thirteen Rabbits

Left wellington for picton via ferry. choppy waters again. felt a little sick. urgh. 3 hour ride across the cook strait. very slow. very windy. took some photos but look i probably look like i was in agony. hair whipping around my face. ouch.

picton is a small, quiet town full of europeans. especially germans.
very small town. a few nice bars/restaurants.
we checked into the Villa - a cosy backpacker's. i love clean sheets and toilets.

nothing much happened cuz by the time we checked in it was around 5pm.

had dinner at Le Cafe. food was yummy (i had home made pasta) but there was only a few pieces and it cost $20. hahahahaha

16.11.08
Day 10
Picton

this was breakfast. finished in a hurry. i almost died.

salmon & scrambled eggs & bagel.

930am boat to somewhere. HAAHAHAHAHAHA

got to see some dusky dolphins! don't have photos of them cuz they are so shy :/
took another nap. very boring la. it's just islands and sea and sun.

we trekked 45min to a waterfall. tiring. cold water. springy ground. every step was fhoom fhoom fhoom on the spongy forest floor. think im not much of a nature person. hmm :S

it's only a small waterfall. maybe between 10 to 15meters?
mossy rocks. blah blah blah. jac was having so much fun. i was just tired. i'll let the photos do the talking now.

descent took ~20minutes. after all that trekking, must refuel at the restuarant.
ordered a burger. it was huge! yummy! really good!
then we headed to the beach. shallow rocky beach. full of shells and pebbles.
water was very clear!

and then it was time to go

had dinner at Slip Inn. i like the food there. we had dessert first cuz we were still quite full from lunch. chocolate mousse cake. only $7.50. very worth it.

then we went back to the Villa. i forgot what we did. probably nothing.
maybe we walked Milly? hmmmmm
and half an hour later we were back at Slip Inn for dinner proper.
hahahaha

pizza. mega meat pizza. yum! thin crust. crispy. !!

and so ends our stay in Picton.

17.11.08
Picton; Kaikoura
Day 11 (sort of)
Ride back to Christchurch

it's just a bus ride la. but we passed by all sorts of cool landscapes and features and stuff. heehee

the bus arrived at 730am? it was a rainy morning.
jenny and i slipped on the front steps of the villa. there is a sign that says slippery when wet, but i slipped anyway. i was being careful! jenny slipped twice! 'nuff said. it gave me a nice 1.5inch wide bruise on my knee. i must say, it takes u by surprise. before i realised it, i was on the ground. HAHAHA

so i fell asleep on the bus as usual. woke up at 830 and saw this.

rainbow! rainbow rainbow rainbow~

the good thing about this place is there are no HDB or tall buildings to block the view. :D

and then there was the greyish blue sea, shimmery in the sun. overcast sky. there was the usual floating seaweed everywhere. loads of blobs of fat on the rocks called seals. think i spotted 2 or 3 dolphins but i can't be sure cuz they slipped under the waves so quickly. the road we took was parallel to the coast, so it was an hour of me straining to see dolphins.

after the sea were the mountains. the snow capped mountains. nothing more to say. there were a few deer farms in the area? so NZ isnt just cows and sheep!

and then we stopped at kaikoura for a half hour break.
it was one of those shingle beaches? full of pebbles?
when u walked u just sink a few centimeters into the ground cuz the pebbles were so loose.

im eating a pizza. and busy stuffing my pockets with pebbles. hehe

jackie's busy taking photos. of her feet.

the cool thing about this place is
whether u look left or right, it's almost identical

on the left we have mountains