After we left Wanganui we stopped at Stanson for some breakfast and coffee, we then headed down to Hutt Valley and stayed at the camp ground at Upper Hutt it was the same one I stayed at in ‘08’,we had a walk along the river front and then went to the Chinese take-away and the booze shop and that was pretty much the end of day two.
We headed down to ‘Upper Hutt ‘ for some breakfast and down to the ferry only to find it was delayed for an hour, we met a nice fella named Laurie and talked to him till we reached Picton had a few beers on the boat and then found the ‘Kiwi Camp Ground’ and settled in for the night and now we are about to go down to Picton to experience the night life, I’ll let ya know how that pans out.
Well just went to the Indian restaurant the café’s all look a bit upmarket and I really could’t be bothered but the Indian food was of an acceptable level of hotness and Kymbo’s green purée of spinach and potatoes looked… well acutely like a pile of sick , but she enjoyed it.
Decided to buy a mobile broadband stick while we were in Upper Hutt , since the Telecom XT network went down overnight again I bought a Vodafone one . I did plan to use hotspot wireless but soon found that I would have to join multiple networks and sign up every night. The Vodafone stick has $40 dollar credit on it and the cheapest top up plan, using hot spot wireless cost around $8 per hour and that’s only 50mb.
So we shall see how impressed I am with this Vodafone coverage as it is pretty marginal in Helensville at the best of times.
Time for a wee dram of Jack.
So in the morning we shall see which way the wind is blowing and decide where to go from here.
photos taken with Kym's cell phone
a silver dollar type plant along the Hutt River
Waikawa Bay, Picton
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