Day 17. Picton. 11.3.26

Today we took a half day cruise in the Queen Charlotte sound, which is the eastern most 1 of the four sounds which make up the Marlborough Sound. It was 7° when we walked down to the harbour at 8am.












Looking out to the North Island in the distance. 

We stopped at Motoura Island to pick up some bird watchers. 


Expedition ship on it's way to Antarctica. 
Coming in to Ship's Cove where we got off to explore for about 20 minutes. 











Looking back to the North Island with the long white cloud above it. ⬇️





Start of the Queen Charlotte track. 71kms long. Karen and Greg have gone to walk 2 days of the track ~29kms. 
C&G caught us up last night and are doing the cruise before they head off towards Queenstown to fly home in a couple of days. We still have another 9 days before flying back to Brisbane. 

On our way to Furneaux Lodge, in the Endeavour Inlet, to drop bags off for the overnight walkers, like K&G.








Next we crossed the inlet to Miners Wharf to do more bag drops.




The water was so clear.


Boat arriving back from Wellington. 


Back on dry land. 
Mark enjoyed an Abalone pie for lunch.
We visited the information centre for a walking map of Picton and walked to the lookout. 












Home for a Nana nap before we headed out for a light dinner and a bit more walking ~ 6kms in total.


Coat hangar bridge. 
We saw a ray as we crossed the bridge. 



We saw 2 more rays coming back over the bridge.



The temperature took awhile to get up to 21°.




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