South Island Finished

I spent the last few days of my South Island time puttering around Nelson, the Marlborough Sounds, and Picton. Then I took the ferry from Picton to Wellington. Interestingly, the ferry from South Island to North Island travels mostly east, and a little south! Wellington is slightly south of Picton.

The ferry is large, and has two movie theatres. (The trip is just over three hours.) However, I had already seen both pictures, and didn’t want to see either again.

In Nelson, I went to the workshop of “The Nelson Bonecarver”, and made a bone carving. I figured: since I’ve done some jade carving, why not complement it with a bone carving?

Other than that, I drove around some of the roads in the northern sounds.

It was nice to arrive in Wellington, and get a small taste of city and civilisation, after many weeks of outdoors and small towns.