The photograph will be familiar to anyone who has visited Christchurch, it was a lovely warm afternoon with the trees in the botanic just beginning to turn.

Still dark we congratulated ourselves on our organisation, collected our breakfast goodi box and pulling our wheeled bags through the awakening streets of Picton to the bus stop outside the ferry terminal. We were well in advance of our 7.30 departure time but bus was ready and waiting with a few people already on board. No need to show our tickets the bus driver greeted us by name and we went up to the top deck to pick our seats and then the bus left 30 minutes...

The afternoon was a walk along “Bob’s Track out to a point and a walk back along the rocky shore at low tide so far 10.5 k today . Going to dinner and watching parade more about that later The National Optimist dinghy championships are taking place this Easter weekend, but competitors from Aus and French was also heard. Very wholesome young people with very keen looking parents. They all paraded through the town this evening. Plus 1600 cruise ship visito...

This was going to be a quiet day !

A hike up to a view point above picton for our morning activity.