Day 80 Picton to Endeavor Bay (1758)
It was a beautiful morning when I took the boat from Picton to Ship Cove and it stayed hot and sunny all day.
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| Training ship at ship bay |
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| Queen Charlotte Sound |
The views as we travelled down the sound were spectacular and the New Zealand sail training ship was anchored at Ship Cove to make it look even better.
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| Clouds, ship and islands from Ship Cove |
Captain Cook visited Ship Cove five times on his world voyages of discovery and there is a monument to him just above the beach.
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| Cook memorial |
I was walking the Queen Charlotte Track which is suitable for mountain bikes and so the walking was easy although there are still some quite steep parts.
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| Queen Charlotte Track |
The bush isn't too thick on today's section and I kept getting views through the trees of the incredible coves and inlets.
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| View from the track |
After the climb over to Resolution Bay there was a small shop selling coffee and ice cream at the campsite there, a very nice lunch stop.
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| Lunch stop views |
There were about twenty other people walking the track today, all going from cabin to cabin with their luggage being transfered by boat, as well as myself and three girls who were just doing the South section of the TA.
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| The scenery was incredible |
A nice little orchard campsite at the head of Endeavor Bay was far enough for today and I pitched my tent with a little help from a Weka that kept running off with things and poking into everything looking for food.
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| Weka looking for something to steal |
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| Nothing there, but what's this? |
A good campsite with a kitchen, tap, sink, gas ring and barbeque as well as a firepit and at least two resident Wekas.
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| Nice campsite |
A German South Island TA walker turned up later looking very clean, easy to tell it was his first day.
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| A great day |
It was a very still evening and there were quite a number of annoying insects, the start of the sandflies.
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