Centre of New Zealand, Nelson, South Island

Later on Friday 10th... in Nelson

The ferry from the North to South Island arrives in Picton and we then drove across to Nelson which is on the coast in the north west of the South Island near the Abel Tasman National Park (of which more later). In the afternoon because there was blue sky (finally) the whole bus walked up to the "Centre of New Zealand" which is basically a hill supposedly where you would put a pin if you spun New Zealand around. Awesome afternoon.

There are a lot of Magnolia's flowering here at the moment. I love Magnolia flowers.

I discovered at some point on this afternoon that I'd left my hiking boots, which I'd brought pretty much only for this one week, in the hostel in Wellington. It was dark when I left and I didn't see them. Bummer.