South Island

South Island is one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited in my life. We drove from Auckland to Wellington caught a ferry the next day to Picton, drove to Nelson Abel Tasman, then to Fran Josef, to Wanaka, Queenstown, Te Anau, Milford, Bluff, Dunedin, Lake Tekapo, Christchurch, Westport, Kaikoura and back to Picton to take the ferry back to Wellington.

The drive all over South Island is just magnificent with the views of snowcap mountains everywhere and beautiful clear blue lakes and amazing greenery and dessert looking mountains.

Beautiful sky and sea at Marahau Abel Tasman, a great place to kayak!


The journey in the car:








Throughout the journey there were many signs by the roads reminding drivers to drive safely. I always enjoy reading them as they can be very creative like this:


At the Glaciers in Fran Josef:


One of my fav places was wanaka. It has a beautiful lake, quiet and I enjoyed their coffee and blueberry cream cheese scone I bought from one of their cafes!


Lake Tekapo where the water was soooooo blue it was unbelievable!


At Kaikoura we were told to try their crayfish by the side of the road on the way to the seal colony. There were 2 so we weren't sure of which was the nicer one but stopped by one that we saw. It was expensive and so delicious!


After eating crayfish we went to see seals - they were so smelly!


So, if there is one place to go back to I'll definately return to the south island! It's like another part of the world compared to the North!