For only the 4th time in NZ, we had to set an alarm to wake us up today, at 7am! We don't miss early mornings! We hadn't slept great as we could hear the sea right outside the van - tut! We had to be in Marahau at 8:45 ready to catch the 9:00 water taxi, and had been told to allow 45mins to get there from our campsite, so it was an early start for us. We arrived in Marahau in plenty of time, and, armed with our cool bag full of food and water, plus Dave's day ba...

Today we headed into Nelson for their famous Sunday morning market. There are lots of stalls selling locally made food, art, crafts, wine etc, and we managed to get hold of 2 bacon and egg sandwiches, which we sat and ate in the sunshine…nice! Next, we had some time online, looking up a few things we'll need for Oz, including our Greyhound bus passes - it'll take a while to get used to having to catch buses again after 3 months in the van, being able to decide...