Riders of Rohan

Well, the last couple days has been quite the whirlwind. In less than three days we've transported ourselves from Napier, down to Wellington, across the ferry to Picton, on the South Island and now to Christchurch. The part of town we're in, New Brighton, is about 15 minutes away from the city centre, and is almost like a Venice Beach of the south Pacific, tonnes of cool little shops, surfers and MASSIVE waves.

The trip from Picton was long, but thankfully uneventful. For the first hour or two we were driving through this barren, almost desert like region of dry, grassy hills. Rohan, for those of y'all who watched Two Towers. And then, out of the complete blue, we come around a corner to THIS.

Not Pictured: my "holy shit, mountains!" face.

This is the beginning of the Kaikoura range, one of the smaller mountain ranges of the South Island.

"Alright let's do our Asian teenager pose"

Needless to say, we were pretty pumped. This is only the beginning. Our final destination tomorrow is Wanaka, sort of a smaller, quieter Queenstown, I'm given to understand. The mountains there are larger. And more numerous. Tomorrow we drive straight from our lil' surfer hostel to the PickNZ office in Alexandra to register for cherry picking and then off to Wanaka for some arrr ennn arrrr. 

And I was always taught that cherry picking was unsportsmanlike. Tee Hee. \

-james