Rather than staying in Wellington city for another night, where there wasn't that much to do we decided to stay in one of its suburbs and hopefully do a walk. We regretfully told the rental company the CD player had packed up and en route to the next campsite had to stop at a garage for a repair. Surprise, surprise two garages later we were no nearer and now had to visit a different garage tomorrow as soon as we get off the ferry, great. We found the site eas...

Now heading to Wellington too early simply due to rain we had to stay for two nights which we weren't really bothered for. It seems a nice, small city, and was surprised to find its the capital (suppose we should probably know these things)! As we arrived the wind was fierce,Whitby shot to mind! The place we'd planned to stay at no longer existed and our plans for parking became very difficult. We we forced to drive around the city in search of somewhere to st...