Queen Charlotte Sound - 3rd - 9th March
Queen Charlotte Track 
Our last thing in the South Island is this 4 day track in the Queen Charlotte Sound. We start at Ship Cove which is where Captain Cook stayed on several occasions. It's a beautiful walk and although we are camping, we don't have to carry our bags - there is a boat that does it for us! Our first camp site is in the orchard of a farm. There are pigs, sheep, cats, rabbits, dogs and a possum. The walk was a bit of a rollercoaster and really steep in places. On our last day it RAINED for the first time - got to use our wet weather gear
though. We stayed for a couple of nights at this eco lodge on the edge of the Sound, great food and free kayaks.
We've met various types of tourists on our travels - each of them doing the ENZED trip their
own way. Backpackers, Flashpackers (the same as backpackers but with more cash), cyclists, people in campervans .. one couple sailing round in their yacht. But on the QCT we met two people doing something very different. Their preferred mode of transport is to RUN round New Zealand. They've taken two days to run the 54 km we took considerably longer to walk. They've got another 18 km to do tomorrow. I wish them well.
Our last thing in the South Island is this 4 day track in the Queen Charlotte Sound. We start at Ship Cove which is where Captain Cook stayed on several occasions. It's a beautiful walk and although we are camping, we don't have to carry our bags - there is a boat that does it for us! Our first camp site is in the orchard of a farm. There are pigs, sheep, cats, rabbits, dogs and a possum. The walk was a bit of a rollercoaster and really steep in places. On our last day it RAINED for the first time - got to use our wet weather gear
though. We stayed for a couple of nights at this eco lodge on the edge of the Sound, great food and free kayaks.We've met various types of tourists on our travels - each of them doing the ENZED trip their
own way. Backpackers, Flashpackers (the same as backpackers but with more cash), cyclists, people in campervans .. one couple sailing round in their yacht. But on the QCT we met two people doing something very different. Their preferred mode of transport is to RUN round New Zealand. They've taken two days to run the 54 km we took considerably longer to walk. They've got another 18 km to do tomorrow. I wish them well.
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