We decided to stay another night at Murchison. The camp site was good and we liked the camp site dog, a really cute black Scottie with the whitest teeth we have ever seen. After brekky we drove just a short distance down the road to the Matakitaki Scenic Reserve to go on the Skyline Track. It was a fairly steep path that started in some woodland by the car park. We followed the path as it wound it's way through the trees until we emerged just under two kilometres...

We had another lovely peaceful night and having not bumped into any strange ***** in the showers this morning all was good. We had decided to go and explore more of the South Island today so after brekky we went to say goodbye to the friendly animals. Billy and the sheep were very happy to see us again. The sheep came bounding over all excited when they saw us and Billy was desperately trying to eat Jay's fleece. Molly was fast asleep grunting and snorting away. ...

We had another peaceful night and decided to stay on this lovely camp site one more night. The amenities were unisex with a row of toilet cubicles down one side and a row of showers down the other. Jay came back from showering unusually for her without incident and then I tottered off to the amenities, towel slung over my shoulders and without a care in the world. I tried the first shower door but it was locked so I tried the next one along. The door swung open a...

We had a beautiful, peaceful night and we got up late. The only noises we heard were the birds in the trees and the cows mewing in the field behind us. This camp site is very tranquil and surrounded by beautiful scenery. We like staying on farms with animals around us. They are much less trouble than people and don't give us any anti social behaviour. Yesterday the lovely lady on reception had given us a bag of food pellets for the animals so after brekky we went...

It hadn't been as noisy as last night except for the pained cries of the ducks who were still searching for their pond. After brekky we got out of this hell hole. We were really looking forward to leaving the North Island and couldn't wait to get on the ferry. We did some food shopping in Lower Hutt at New World and Pak N Save and then we drove into Wellington and to the Bluebridge ferry terminal. We got there at about half eleven in plenty of time for the half o...