After getting up this morning we decided to make use of the ok weather and the fact that it wasn't way too cold to be sat in the van, so we started planning. We have a rough idea where abouts we want to visit in the south island but we need to look into if we want to do any activities and we have no idea so far what we want to do on north island. After reading our books and searching on the internet we have a good idea that we will be crossing on the ferry from Picton to Wellington somewhere around 10th July. That does only give us 13 days to explore the north and try to meet up with Sam and Steph who have now made it to New Zealand too. After all of the reading we decided that there was way more we wanted to see and do in the south so that's where we'll spend the majority of our time. So with some plans under our belts we set off around midday. Our first destination was Fortrose in the Catlins where there is a shipwreck called Ino that can only be seen at low tide. We were about an hour out of low tide when we got there so couldn't see it but we did have a nice walk along the beach with all the trees and branches that have been washed up over the years. As we were leaving you could see the very top of the wreck. Next stop was Slope point which is the south islands most southerly point. The track was long and gravelled, we did wonder what we were doing here but eventually we reached the point at which you have to walk. The walk is only 20 minutes long through farmland though which was rather muddy after the rain we've had. The views from here were great as the cliff edge was a huge drop onto massive rock pools, the waves were crashing extremely high up on the rock. And there right near the end was the Slope point sign with the Equator at 5140km away and the South pole 4803km. We took compulsory photographs at this point and headed back to the van. Next up was a look out point to see rare yellow-eyed penguins at Curio Bay. We walkd the five minute track to the lookout and read the signs then looked out. James spotted one first it was pretty obvious once we'd seen it as it's belly was so very white. It was walking towards the rocks so we walked down the steps and onto the rocks to sit down to watch. There was a small group of people already on the rocks. The penguin seemed to be working out whether it could get to the bushes where it's chicks were without having to go near humans. It was just standing still and occasionally calling out to the chicks who returned the call. We moved away and so did the group. More penguins were coming in now and at one point we could see six on the beach. It was getting quite dark so we decided to head back to the van. We looked for somewhere to freedom camp for the night and found a spot 5km up the road. We headed for there, made tea, read and got some sleep.