Caught the morning ferry from Wellington down to Picton on Saturday! The ride was 3-3.5 hours and it was a much bigger ferry than I thought it would be! I woke up way earlier than normal so I spent the first half of the trip inside sleeping and then the second half (which of course was more exciting as we got closer to Picton) up on the top deck.
I broke down my 20 days of traveling and stories in the South Island to day-by-day to make it easier for you all to read (as well as for me to write and keep track of everything). This post is gigantic, but I manged to see and do so many things that there is a lot to cover.
For my adventure I had signed up for a trip down the west coast of the South Island offered by my program, TEAN, which started on March 30th and lasted until April 6th. However, I found out that if I left a few days earlier I could save money on flights so I made a few arrangements and spent an extra couple days in the Christchurch area and visited some friends that attend Lincoln University. My Spring Break also lasted longer than April 6th so I decided to leave tack on an extra week to travel travel further south and then back up on the east coast again to see some fellow TEAN’ers at Otago University in Dunedin.
I would like to wish you the best of luck in making it to the end…Ready. Set. Good luck.
Emerson Was Right 