Day 23 – Worthless $7 WiFi

Today started at 5am and I quietly drove out of the holiday park bound for Wellington and the Interislander ferry.  It was a super quiet ride into the city and as I parked in queue for the ferry, Tegan awoke from slumber asking, “Where are we? The ferry ride was pretty smooth and we were treated to a traditional Maori performance from some performance group that happened to be on the ferry crossing.  I regretfully purchased some time on the ferry’s WiFi service only to get nothing in return.  What a joke!

The weather was singled out as our adversary as we sought sunny weather on the South Island.  Our original itinerary had us heading to the Abel Tasman, but you could not even see any mountains as it was so sopped in.

On the way South we came across quite a site as a group of likely hundreds of thousands of birds kept flying in a rotational pattern about 300 metres off the shoreline.  It was amazing to see.

So the weather forecast for Christchurch looked promising so we headed there.  The campground we chose was just north of Christchurch, a bit of a dive, but it worked.  We didn’t find the sun, but had high hopes for the next day.