Easter Weekend - Queen Charlotte Sound

For Easter, I headed upto Queen Charlotte Sound. Left Christchurch on Thursday afternoon, spent the night in Picton before meeting Jackie, Derek and others off the Wellington Ferry. We were then staying at Lochmara Lodge, which we got too buy water taxi.



Lochmara Lodge Queen Charlotte Sound

Once at the lodge, the weekend was spent kayaking, reading, doing a few walks and playing petanque as well as the obligatory drinking, eating well and spending time chatting with the locals (the Punga People)



Queen Charlotte Sound, Punga Family and person.






Boat trip and drunken capers. These included looking at phosphorus in the water, when the water was disturbed it glowed like radioactive waste !!!

Dinner time and Full moon over the lodge

On the journey home I caught the train from Picton back to Christchurch. It was probably the slowest train I have ever been on. On the way it passed a large salt mining area which looked like a lunar landscape.

Next trip is back to Scotland, so looking forward to that and catching up with family and friends :).