The Snout and the Tombstone

This is looking back at Picton from the Snout.  The gorse is in bloom again and the sun was out, electrifying the water.

This is the best view we have had of the Sounds.  The Interislander ferry is taking one of it's several daily trips out of Queen Charlotte Sound, across Cook Strait, and into Wellington.  We just booked our tickets today and will be on that boat in a little more than a week.  The other day the ferry was canceled due to the 11 m swell in the strait, that is more than 30 feet.  Apparently they cancel if the swell reaches 7 m (20 ft.), we are hoping that we don't get a 6 m day where they are still sailing with 18 ft swell.  
The Coffin door of the Tombstone, "world famous in New Zealand since two years ago."
The Tombstone is named for the cemetery across the street, the hostel is the grey building across the road.  The address is 16 Gravesend Pl. and below the street sign the is another reading "No Exit", nice work there.  
Lynne, on the left, and Gordon have a wood fire pizza oven and often do pizza night for the guests.  Since we are "wwoofing" she did it all for us, including a bottle of wine.  It really was the best homemade pizza I have ever had.
Pizza night with the other "wwoofer", our new friend, Anne from Germany.
Snowflake is one of the two cats living at the Tombstone, the other is black.  Snowflake is deaf and therefore a very unique and hilarious cat.  She is not afraid of noise so she plays with the vacuum and leaf blower, etc., and she meow's louder than any other cat on the planet.  We call her "Snowflaken", a mispronounced version of her German name that Anne gave her after another British wwoofer couldn't get the German right.

We only have a week and a half left before we leave for Auckland.  This might be our last blog from NZ.  Thanks for reading them all year, we can't wait to see you all.

Love, 

Johnny and Mae