The South Island....

On route to Wellington with a couple of stops along the way.  The first being Huka falls – 200,000 litres of water plunge 9 metres over the great rock face of the Huka fall every second – enough to fill 5 Olympic pools every minute – impressive!!!!! We then made a quick stop at a Military museum – Kade was thrilled. There were real tanks and the boys loved climbing all over them.

 

Huka Falls

 


Huka Falls



Kade at the Military Museum

We stayed in a hotel in Wellington that was up from the water and had a great view. It felt like we were in a European city with all the buildings on the side of the hills. We caught the Interislander ferry to Picton early the next morning.  It was a little cool (not -29 though!).  The landscape was amazing – fjords coming into Picton were spectacular!

The family on the ferry

It was a windy ride - check out Kade's hair!
That is what our ferry looked like.

The boys hanging out on the deck



The Fjords coming into Picton

 We travelled across the south Island to the west coast – through various landscapes including mountain ranges, plains and beside rivers on very curvy roads and ended at the Tasman Sea in Greymouth – spent the evening at the beach searching for rocks and waiting for the sunset.

 

The beach in Greymouth - it was actually really wavy.

Heading out tomorrow to see a glacier – really looking forward to that.

Kia Ora from the Rennies