Our Last Day On The South Island

Today we spent saying goodbye to the South Island of New Zealand. In the morning we will be getting up and heading to Picton which is where we will drop off our car and hop on the ferry for a three hour ferry ride to the North Island. We didn't have any huge plans for today but Garrith, our kayak guide from yesterday, suggested checking out the Golden Bay area which was just a little further north. We went to Takaka which wasn't too far away but took some time to get to due to all the hairpin turns on the roads. We did some shopping, got ourselves a souvenir, and had lunch and then kept driving north. We went up to Pupu Springs which is the clearest freshwater springs with the exception of one other in Antarctica. It was rather impressive how clear it really was.

As we kept driving to see what we could find we saw a sign for a beach. Being sunburned from two days ago and still a bit soar, we lathered on our SPF 30 real thick and went out for about an hour. It was a fun day of doing whatever we came upon. When we arrived back to the Lodge where we are staying, Luke went down to the General Store and bought us some wine to have with dinner for our 6 month anniversary today! We made our own dinner in the kitchen here and toasted to a wonderful 6 months of marriage and many, many, many more:) Planning on heading to the pub in town for our lastnight here. Monteith's, Tui's, Speights anyone?! Goodbye South Island...We LOVE LOVE LOVE you.