Day 29Tahuna Bay, Nelson Day dawned bright and sunny as forecast so we decided that we had had enough driving for a while and stayed put in Nelson for the day. Talk about coincidence, a Dutch couple that we were talking to at a campsite a couple of days ago at Greymouth were parked close to us here and they are on the same ferry to Wellington as well so we shared some of the experiences we had both encountered. After breakfast, a big fry up cooked by Bill, we ...

Day 28 Kaikoura to Nelson Can't believe it's been four weeks already…. The title today should be wet, wet, wet….woke this morning to a really grey day again and blowing a gale, well they did forecast it so I shouldn't be surprised; awfully glad we didn't go on the whale watch. If it wasn't cancelled which it may well have been it would have been very rough and with the visibility down to just a few yards so spotting anything other than white horses would ha...