Our last 3 days on Stewart Island. We mainly spent time getting ready to leave. Doing laundry. Packing up stuff. Making sure we had all the essentials for camping in the van (from here on known as Betsy). There were also a couple days of going on the boat. Scuba diving and spear fishing for the others, sitting on the boat and line fishing for me. Very relaxing. Playing cards and driving. Stewart Island was a lovely place to spend 3 weeks. We were sad to go. We definitely will miss K. and C. It was awesome of them to have us for so long. It was a lot of fun being there with them, getting to hang out and relax.
on the morning of the 29th, we caught the ferry over to Bluff, where we had already sent Betsy. The ferry was not as cool as flying over by far. The water was kind of rough too, so that made it even less enjoyable. But, we got over, picked up Betsy, then headed into Invercargill to get more supplies. It sort of felt like a treasure hunt being there. Because it was between Christmas and New Years, a lot of stuff was closed. But, we found enough stores that were open and got some clothes, a mattress, groceries, a few other random supplies. Invercargill wasn't a very exciting town, but it served us well for what we needed. It was very warm that day, which was also nice.
That night, we headed out of Invercargill, and camped out in this wildlife reserve area. It was right on a lagoon. It was lovely, and very peaceful. And not very buggy - which is great, b/c we were tired of being plagued by sandflies (biting bugs 10 times more annoying than mosquitos.
We had a nice meal that night, then turned in early because we were quite tired.
-N.
(Pictures might be a little slow to come, b/c my digital camera is currently dead. )
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