Top of the South Island

We got ourselves up and headed up to the tip of the South Island which is called Farewell Spit...it's this pretty amazing beach that curls out into the ocean for miles. Jonelle and her husband, Tom, had camper-vanned around the whole island for 6 weeks with their new baby so she directed us to this beautiful beach (that was extremely windy) but amazing. I couldn't take the camera out because the wind would have whipped it away. She also had some ideas about campgrounds because we were in the need of one. After popping into a pub and getting directions from a bunch of drunks, Jonelle was sort of sure where it was. Quinny's Bush it was. It was quite the campground with skate ramps, dune buggy courses, flying foxes, BMX platforms, and lots of little fire pits all over...turns out there were also crosses on the trees and notes by showers with pictures of Jesus. It was full of families and there were tons of kids. We didn't partake of any of Quinny's camping delights, but we did find a nice spot to cook up our instant noodle packs and set up the tents for one last night.


Here's a sampling of what we saw and also a peek into the pain of Lucy's sunburn. This was day 3 of the burn. She was hurting but NZ does have a burn time of 10-12 minutes and this was the beauty of 2 hours. Ouch.

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