Wild Kiwi Camper Day 9

Most of us got up Sunday morning in hopes of catching a beautiful sunrise.  It was about a 10 minute walk to the beach and in hind sight I should have worn shoes.  After walking there and standing on the shore for half an hour my toes were quite numb.  The view of the sunrise - mountains to the left with snow on the tops and the sun popping over the horizon - was well worth the early morning and the cold feet.

After breakfast we headed off, driving along the coast.  There is still a ton of road construction because of the earthquake, which isn't all that surprising after living in Christchurch for 6 weeks.  We drove the the New Zealand wine region, Marlborough and stopped at a lovely winery.  It was Lucille's 32nd birthday so we did a wine tasting at Framingham Wines.  I bought a Raspberry Slice and some birthday candles so we had a little celebration there as well.

The winery was only a half hour away from Picton and our accommodation for the night was a beautiful, old Victorian style house that was turned into a hostel.  Aptly named 'The Villa', they serve free, homemade apple crumble every night at 8pm - how cool is that!?

As it was Sunday afternoon, most places were closed, but we took a walk around town anyway.  It's quite small, but the ferry from the North Island (Wellington) drops people off here every day, I believe, so it has its fair share of touristy things and eateries.  

We managed to find a place that would be open for dinner and we made a reservation at an nice Indian restaurant in town.  The naan bread turned out to be rather disappointing, but everything else was delicious.  We ended up sitting around in the lounge for the evening chatting, working on an insane jigsaw puzzle, and of course, eating our apple crumble.  Another relaxing day of touring in the books.