You know how they say that God has a master plan. Well, I think that the campsite we first stayed in in Taupo was part of that master plan to get me to South Island in this caravan. I am no clean freak by any stretch, but I don’t particularly like other people’s germs. So if giving me the Taupo camp facility tricked me into thinking that that was the kiwi standard, it worked. The first camp site was by no means fancy, but the facilities were so impecably clean. That is worth five stars to me.

So arriving at night at our campsite in Picton left me comfronted with a sobering reality. It wasn’t horrible, but the campsite just wasn’t as nice as the last one. It lost me at the chanky (is that a word?) bathroom. I decided to not even search for the kitchen facilitates. I figured the next morning we’d go out for breakfast

Fortunately Picton delivered that.

We woke up to a bit of an overcast morning, but decided to walk into town nonetheless. We took a shortcut from the campsite and tried our luck at a boat cafe. Unfortunately it was closed so we went and found the downtown area. It was small, but cute. After a great breakfast we decided to give visit the Edwin Fox Museum. On our way we passed a great little park. I took a page out of Jenny and Sarah T.’s book and we let the kids have a good play. They loved it.

We then went to check out the museum. It left something to be desired. It seemed to be a mom and pop operation which is cute, except by the look of it the boat that we were to tour was in horrible condition and the museum tour started with a 40 minute movie. Forty minutes? I was less worried about my kids surviving the boredom than I was my husband. We decided that it was best to give it a pass. At the moment my kids think museums are cool. I didn’t want to tarnish that impression.

After heading back to the caravan park we packed up and started on our way to Kaiteriteri.