The Queen Charlotte Drive

From the moment we crossed to the south island, we fell in love with it. Amber, you were totally right about the south island. Nothing we have seen in the north compares to the picturesque scenery that is overwhelming our senses here.


There is a very tortuous road between Picton and Havelock, named the Queen Charlotte Scenic Drive. Even in terribly cloudy and dark weather, the drive lived up to its name.

This is the ferry that brought us and Frank (that's the name of our car) to the south island of NZ.

The town of Picton in the background.

At the start of the drive the weather still looked all right....

But the clouds started to come in the further we got. Peter Jackson got it right when he decided to film the LOR trilogy here.....Ominous!

"Jenn, do you think it's gonna rain?"