Up and out around 10:30 today, leaving behind us the madness from the SeaFest and driving north for a couple of hours to Renwick. The drive is really nice along the cost road and on the way we found a seal by the shore to photograph and then picked up a lobster size crayfish to have for lunch. Li then spent the next 40 miles getting it out of the shell and although nice is a lot of effort

Renwick is in the middle of the Marlborough wine region, so as expected this is a good time to do some more tasting! Four vineyards this time and we picked up a few more bottles, all good although we do think that there is a lot of similar wines here, nothing really stands out as different from the others

Leaving the wine region we travel north again to the coast and the town of Havelock which, they claim, is the Green lipped mussel capital of the world. With this in mind we stop off at the port and grab some mussels. They are seriously big and so much better than you can get in the UK

Leaving Havelock we travel to Picton and bed down for the night as we’ve got an early start for the ferry