South Island Tour Day 4 4th January 2015

The majority of today was spent looking around Nelson knocking off things in Wendy's book.

The museum had some interesting exhibits especially the World War 1 exhibit, which reminded me of the history of how the war actually began. My daughter would be able to give me a good account of it too.

The majority of the museum was on how Nelson played its part in the formation of New Zealand as a country. The museum was not free. I think it was a $5 entry fee.











We had a look at the South Street houses, which have been lovingly restored and are still lived in or used for accommodation. Walked up to the cathedral and looked inside. We then went for a stroll along Tahunanui beach. At the time they were setting up for a national volleyball competition. We spoke to this man who seemed to be involved with it and new his stuff. He gave us the low down on how their local team always does well and that Waikato has some pretty good teams too.

Wendy had enough of having yucky feeling hair and washed it under one of the public showers used to get sand off you after a day at the beach.

We then headed up to Kaiteriteri beach. Along the way we stopped to feed some tame eels near Tasman

Kaiteriteri beach has an awesome sand colour and the water was great. We were warned that it could be pretty busy but even though it was the busy season we still managed to find a park on the waterfront and stay for about an hour and have a swim.

Earlier in the day I had txt some friends who were traveling the South Island as well and we knew they were somewhere near here. We found them in Motueka Motorcamp so we headed back there to have dinner and an evening with them before heading back to Wakefield and our camp site.