Day 37 – 39 : Picton – “Show me your dolphins.”
Taking three hours to sail from the bottom of the north island to the top of the south, I manage to work out the distance between New Zealand’s two islands by comparing the voyage with a trip I’m familiar with. Similar in journey time to a cruise between Ireland and the UK, I deduct the mileage and I experience the fact that, though many maps show the two islands as one contiguous mass, New Zealand is very much a tale of two halves.