Picton Days 37 and 38

A seal waves it flipper as we leave Goose Bay and head to Picton. We have morning tea in Ward and have only just booked into the camping ground when we see that the railway overbridge spans the camping ground. Grrrrrr!

We walk into town to book our ferry back and book for dinner at Escape to Picton (when really we are planning our escape from Picton!!) After a nap and a run (Duncan) and a catch up on my blogs (me) we walk back into town for a lovely meal - one of the few treats we have allowed ourselves.

He looks serious but he's probably playing patience,

We begin the 31st March with a game of golf at the Picton Golf course. I am still struggling after my golf lesson and we are hurried off the course by the men's Thursday competition. It is an interesting course with 9 holes played twice from different tees to make 18.

We pack our  lunch and head out on Queen Charlotte Drive to Momorangi which is a lovely bay after a very windy road - glad we were not towing the caravan. It is an idyllic setting for our lunch. After a walk up the beach we head off to the marina for leisure craft and the green-lipped mussel industry. We have a cuppa there. Duncan is salivating for a feed of mussels  but apart from having a second lunch at a restaurant we cannot find any to buy. We come across the first busload of passengers off the cruise ship.

Cruise ship at a wharf further up the harbour from the ferry berth.

As we are going home via Renwick we are very pleased that some busloads have preceded us because when we arrive at cellar doors they have lots of nice wines open for us to try. We go to Alan Scott where the wines are luscious and Hunters where they are a bit ordinary.

We go into Picton on our return to fill up with diesel and to buy a new teapot.

A quiet night in the caravan.