Thrusday 2nd Feb 2012. (above is me hard grafting - the whip lou uses is out of range but that was the 15th acre id done that morning...) Lou and i were up at 6 and on the road back to picton for the ferry at 7. toni had decided to stay a little longer as he wanted to go whale watching and do a coulple of other things. We arrived at the ferry check-in (after getting a little lost at the terminal and finding out EVERYONE does it) and were told that they were run...

Wednesday 1st Feb 2012. A nice ly-in again and then we were picked up to go...wine tasting!! We set off at 11 and arrived back at around 6. There wre 8 of us in total, including a couple who thort they knew what they were talking about, rara. actually they were ok but gave the impression they wouldnt be! We were taken to 5 wineries in total, and tried 1.5 bottles of wine in total. i tried mainly whites, a) as i wanted to see which whites i liked and b) that was ...

Tuesday 31st Jan 2012 We had a bit of a lazy morning yesterday and then set off in the car towards golden bay and abel tasman at half10 ish. We drove around 3hours up the windiest mountains again and eventually hit golden bay. it runs for miles so we decided to go to one of the beaches, just to say we had. There was no-one on the beach and there was no surf. like our little own private beach! We then headed back and called in at abel tasman on the way. again, it...