Easter holiday trip day three

On Saturday we stood up at half past five, because we had a long drive to Golden Bay, in the north of the southern island. The weather was still overcast and on the upper part of our way, the visibility was really bad. But finally we arrived at Farewell Spit and went also to the Whakariki Beach. A small path led us to the huge beach with lots of sand – beautiful.

It was almost lunch time and we were very hungry. In Takaka we went in a supermarket and bought something to eat. But it started to rain heavily and there was no place to take lunch! So we drove an hour to the next bigger city (Motueka) and ate under the edge of a roof.
After we all had eaten enough, we went on, right to Nelson and further to Picton. Normally there you have a nice view on parts of Marlborough Sounds, but it was still too cloudy. In Picton you could take the ferry to Wellington, but we wanted to go in the opposite direction. After a Guinness in an Irish pub (Victor drove) we went to Blenheim and stayed in a backpacker, which was similar to the last one but not the same quality and smaller.