We arrived in Wellington (bottom of the North Island) early this morning via the Interislander ferry and tried to find a hostel, but hadn’t realized there was a big cricket match taking up all available accommodation for the whole weekend, so decided we’d just stay for the day and then head up to a DOC site north of the city for the night. I sent a text to Martha, a high school/UVa classmate who moved to Wellington a year and a half ago, and we made plans to meet up for brunch. We met up with her in Miramar, a gorgeous hilly area with beautiful sea views, and had lunch at the Chocolate Frog, a café inside a landscaping store. Neither Ann nor I really likes city driving, so we left the car by Martha’s house and took a bus in to the city to meet up with some of Ann’s friends from Florida who happened to be in Wellington for the weekend, at the start of primarily South Island camping trip. After morning shopping and then lunch with Ann’s friends and some of their friends from Wellington, we all headed over to a park near the waterfront where we saw an amazing high-wire acrobatic act called Gravity and Other Myths. We also caught the tail end of the dragon boat festival over by the rowing club.
In the afternoon, we left Wellington and drove up along the western coast of the island to the Whanganui area to camp for the night at a basic DOC site.
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