Back on the Beach

Oh, the places we go!

Since leaving the dairy farm a few weeks ago, we visited our friends in Dunedin again, we returned to the caravan park in Invercargill to help out for another week, and then we continued north along the east coast in search of good weather.

While in Invercargill we visited a few travel agents and took the plunge and booked the rest of our plane tickets for the rest of our adventure. At the end of January we will be saying good-bye to New Zealand and will fly to Delhi, in the north of India. From there we have ten weeks to make our way to Chennai, in the south of India, where we will fly out of. In April we will arrive in Thailand, and we will spend about four or five months bumming around Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Malaysia. We would like to extend an open invitation to anyone to join us in India or Southeast Asia next year to enjoy a few drinks on a beach. Seriously.

Along the way up the east coast we stayed a night at a caravan/animal park where we followed the owners on the evening and morning feeding. We met their donkey, emus, deer, possums, lamb, wallaby, goat, pig, peacock, alpacas, and many other animals as well.

Near the top of the island is the area known as the Marlborough wine region. While in town we had to visit the Cloudy Bay winery, the first New Zealand wine we ever had back home in Canada. It was delicious, of course, but when bottles range from $30 - $50, the wine better be good!

Now we are hanging around the north coast of the island, doing sun dances and enjoying the many beach-side camping options. We’ve had a few days in a row now of warm, sunny days. We’re currently in Nelson, where we spent yesterday strolling along their beautiful beach and enjoying some white wine in the sun. We have another farm stay lined up for next week only about 100 km from here, so we plan on being beach bums until then. Life is good!