Wellington - Picton
not for long tho
01.05.2006
18 °C
The next day we bid adieu to the golden girl lookalike and trudged on downtown to the Bluebridge Ferry Terminal to get the ferry to Picton in the south island. It was a lovely day and we had a few hours to kill so we hopped onto the Wellington Cable car for a quick spin to see some fantastic views of the city and harbour area.
The ferry itself was humoungous and had a cool lounge room showing movies and a big observation deck up on top. We ate lunch outside and took in the fantastic scenery until it got a bit too cold for Jimbob shortpants. We stocked up on tea and watched ‘Finding Nemo’ in the movie lounge. It was cool. We got to Picton and checked into one of the coolest hostels ever. It was called Atlantis Backpackers and had a huge kitchen and a big TV room. All the bedrooms & dorms were also decorated with fish & sea munsters. Quality hostel. We nosied around the picturesque Picton and then whipped up a fabulous hostel dinner of pasta, veg & sauce (it don’t get more exciting than hostel food I tell thee). He he. We watched a movie in the room with trunty other scruffians and drank some wine. 
Posted by squeakylee 4:35 PM Archived in New Zealand
Word up homeys!
My jealousy mounts; the caving sounds fantastic (Bonus points for the RD reference: "what a guy" heh heh. For full nerd credit though we need something to do with the "really dark caves" from Father Ted). Careful with the Dad references though; we don't want to break the Dad lift gravy train! (How're ya Dad!).
I think someone said that NZ has the biggest bungee jump in the world in it (Can't remember which part though), it's also meant to be a cool place to learn to scuba dive (and if Mum (How're ya Mum!) isn't worried enough yet theres also some tiger wrestling and gunslinging competitions, not to mention the "who can drink enough poison" contests!)
Looking forward to your visit to my expensive little archipelago (Check out the vocabulary on that dude eh!?), drop me a line and I'll see if I can sort out some cheap transport for yee (If you're only going to be in Japanland for a couple of weeks then that rail ticket I mentioned probably wouldn't be worth it). I don't really have any recommendations about Oz for you though (In my extensive, er, two weeks in Australia I think I met a grand total of 5 Aussies) but there is one really cool thing to do in Kings Cross, (The really sleazy district of Sydney: Insert dirty joke here
) and Cairns is awesome (and er radical, dude) provided that you have cash; otherwise it would be pretty lame (Argh! I'm an American teenager, like whatever!)
Take it handy
Paul
03.05.2006 by Mysterio