All you can eat seafood

Welcome to the south island.

We caught the ferry from the north to south island, and despite all the warnings, of how rough it would be, all the sea sickness we'd have, general panic on the boat, people jumping ship with life rings etc, our sea legs more than stood up to the test... This was helped in part by Ray Laws, Pritch and Dave (who strangely resembled the ghostbusters) who were a lawn bowls team heading from the north to south island to take part in a bowls competition, they bought us a beer and gave us some good advice about a drive to take up the coast.

The next day before taking the drive, we popped along to cheer them on at the picton bowls club. Unfortunately for them they'd got a bit carried away the night before and were bowling with hangovers (read losing).

Anyhow, the drive was amazing, passing through loads of deserted bays, adam even got the chance to feed a goat (thats FEED, not the other four letter f-word) plus we picked some mussels from the beach for Alexia to have for dinner. Dinner turned out to be a bit of a let down as the mussels were less than edible, but not wanting to be left out when there was a feast going on Adam had bought some steak, which he selflessly shared with Alexia when her seafood was discovered to be dodgy. As unbeliveable as Adam sharing food sounds, this did actually happen!

The next day we drove through Nelson and up to a small town on the edge of the Able Tasman national park with the plan of going out sea kayaking the next day, as it is meant to be some of the best kayaking in the world-we'll let you know!

P.S. Newcastle 3-1 Tottenham. Adam is gutted (I hope Mark G is not giving you too much hassle Rob)