We both had a great sleep. I am sure it was because we were both exhausted from the long drive south yesterday. More fireworks last night as NZ celebrates Guy Fawkes Day. Woke up at about 5:50am and went for my shower. First time Gary hadn't been to the showers before I had mine so I had to wait until the hot water got to the shower. We left the campground about 6:15am behind a procession of at least 10 Maui maggots. We think it was a convoy of maggots being transferred to Christchurch. No problem getting to the ferry terminal. Just follow the maggot train! We had breakfast while we waited for the ferry and I worked on the blog. Good thing Jean was observant because suddenly there were no maggots in front of us! There is a message showing up on the warning panel stating there is some sort of additive that needs to be added and until the message is cleared, the maggot would not start. Took a few times of punching buttons to get it cleared and finally the maggot fired up and we were able to load. I am sure the ferry crew were not amused at our delay. When we get to Nelson , I will see about getting the additive. Hopefully there is a Volkswagon dealer there! This little issue is an example of the one downfall of the Apollo camper company. They do not appear to pay proper attention to the maintenance of their vans. Fritz the maggot had bald tires and the microwave, backup camera, and the tourist radio would not work. Helga the maggot needs this blue additive and the warning message keeps showing a diminished number of kilometers available before the maggot will not run anymore! The Maui Maggot procession turned out to be a film in the making. There were about 5 cameramen complete with sound person and technician for each. They were all over the ferry filming the people who had been driving the Maui maggots. Might be some kind of tourist film for,the Chinese market judging by the drivers of the maggots. As I write this, we are sitting in a glassed in observation area and are now well into the strait.The sun is lovely and warm and we are starting to feel the rollers from the open ocean. Lots of activity to see as we left Wellington Harbour. Another ferry was inbound and a freighter had just left the Harbour and as we went by, the pilot was being transferred to the pilot boat. To the north, we could see many planes landing and taking off from the Wellington airport. Will continue this when we stop for the night. I phoned the VW dealership in Nelson and explained the problem with the Adblue as it is called and they advised me that it was not a problem as they would add the product to the vehicle at no charge because the Maggot was still under warranty. The trip through Queen Charlotte Strait was wonderful. The sun shone the whole route and we watched a NZ navy boat conducting exercises in the the Strait just in front and to the side of us as we progressed through the Strait. From what I could see they had a speedboat chasing them and they were practicing dry firing at the speedboat. Lots of heavy gunfire with fairly large guns. We had a very interesting trip from Picton to Nelson through the Marleboro wine region. Miles and miles of vineyards stretching off as far as one one could see. We stopped at Havelock so I could put some eye drops in - too much sun on the old eyeballs - it is very intense here. I took a picture of the Havelock police station. Basically a one room building! Gary, I have added a picture of a mega maggot which was parked in front of us in Havelock. Our new maggot is the same length as our old maggot, so you can see we labored under some misconception that our maggot was big! We had to go over another extremely winding road through the mountains. The difference this time was that Jean was sitting in the passenger seat instead of in the back with Sunni. There were a few gasps and one comment that she needed a gravol! When we got to Nelson, I went directly to the VW dealership and a young mechanic came to the maggot with 3 large bottles of what looked like water. He said he did not know what was in the Adblue because there was no indicator of any ingredients and no warning labels. He poured in about 22 liters of the product and said that the cost, if we were paying for it, would be about $1,500 to $2,000 and needed to be added to the engine every 50,000 km. Apparently a small bit of the Adblue is added to the engine to somehow reduce the emissions from the engine. If one did not add the product, the engine computer would reduce the engine efficiency to 75%. After he was done, I had to back out onto a busy road because the route I had chosen to enter the dealership property went into a back alleyway which had overhangs that were too low to allow the maggot past. Jean and I then explored downtown Nelson. Quite a nice little town with some very beautiful old houses lining the road along the seashore. We had lunch and did some grocery shopping. We have stopped for 2 days at Motueka, a small town on the edge of Abel Tasman Park. Tomorrow we will take a boat and get dropped off on the shore to do a 7km hike in the park.