K20 adventure thread

[NZBurb]

Hi everyone.

As promised, and inspired by FlyNavy30's adventure thread, here is my K20 adventure thread. For a bit of background please see the 4x4 Suburban thread here.

With summer time here in New Zealand, school is out and the country pretty much shuts down for two-to-three weeks from Christmas. It's a great opportunity to get some genuine time away from work knowing there won't be any emails or phone calls coming through.

This year my wife and I, with our two daughters aged 12 and 10 (where does the time go) decided a two week road trip around the South Island would be a nice change from our usual Christmas break at the beaches in the Coromandel Peninsula. We usually do an annual ski trip to the South Island and decided it would be great to check it out in summer. I'll be posting some Suburban-themed daily updates here in this thread.

Day one: Wellington to Kaiteriteri

We live in Wellington at the bottom of the North Island so it was a nice, quick trip to the ferry terminal. We caught the 8:45am sailing which takes three hours to cross Cook Strait and land in Picton - it was a full trip with the ship at capacity (around 1,400).

Below I've posted some shots of the ferry and travelling through Tory Sound, which is one of a collection of Sounds at the top the South Island. The last shots are the ferry swinging around with Picton in the background.