We grabbed a quick breakfast in our Wanganui campsite where we were lucky to have paid $20 for a shared bathroom instead of $32 for an en-suite, but no one had turned up that night so we still had it to ourselves! We got in the car and drove into town, having a quick potter around the streets, then going into a steam boat museum. We then started driving the River Road up the Wanganui river. There was a few stop places where you could see views of the river which ...

We got up and ready and ate then headed out to the WETA Cave, this was a little shop which showed information on all WETA productions and gave a 25 minute film on them. WETA were the people who created the customs and animations for Lord of the Rings, so it was impressive seeing models of Gollum, one of the giant orcs and a load of other stuff. We then headed to an area of coast near Wellington called Red Rocks, we had a walk along the sea and finally after an ho...

We had a nice long lie in before getting packed up on the campsite. We still had some time before our ferry so we went to a view point of Picton and sat on a bench with a coffee watching the ferries come into the harbour. There, we met a sweet little old man, trying to take photos of the scenery but didn't think it was coming out right because of how bright the sun was. He befriended Graeme and tried to get him to 'fix' his camera. Bless him.It was soon midday so...

We woke up very excited this morning, Graeme in particular as he had been talking in his sleep a few hours earlier saying 'Tafooey' (not quite sure how its spelt but it's the word Graeme's uncle told us to shout to get dolphins to come closer!). We quickly put clothes on and power walked down to the harbour for our dolphin swim.We arrived at the office and we were given wet suits and masks, and then a briefing on what to expect on the trip. We were told that sing...

We arose got ready, had some toast then headed off to the viewpoint we had visited yesterday, thankfully today the mist had lifted and we got to see the peninsula and Kaikoura mountain range. We had decided to do a hike up a local mountain as we had been told by the tourist information place it was an easy track walk and took 3 hours to get up. Since the map we had been given wasn't very clear we thought we would nip back into the same tourist information place t...