Picton

 We made it to the south island, which has many fewer people on it. The town of Picton only has about 4,500 residents. Our cruise ship of 1,900 passengers and 900 staff really boosts the town's numbers. It is a port town with the deepest harbor in New Zealand. However, besides the ferry and the lumber yard, it's mainly just private or small boats. We had to dock at the lumber yard.

It was actually a fair ways from the town so we had bus/shuttle drivers. Most of them were pretty chatty and informative. They dropped us off at the downtown waterfront park. We checked out the awesome playground with a small scale ship for the kids to play on. It's hard to see in the background. Cool park.
We wandered the farmer's market, although it was probably more of a craft fair as there was no food. We went across the bridge connecting various parts of the warfs. I loved the sign about what you can't do, especially at the bottom where is says No Fun, then ok, you can have fun.







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