Waimate, New Zealand
3 February: We left Feilding around 9:15 this morning heading south to Wellington to get the ferry to the South Island. The trip takes about two and a half hours if you drive straight through. It took us six hours. We had to stop at every interesting place along the way! We checked in for the ferry and by 4:30 we were parked with a few hundred others on the vehicle deck and made our way to the lounge to enjoy the three and a half hour trip across Cook Strait. The...