In the April 2011 school holidays we went sailing in the Marlborough Sounds. Tamati Tui from Ruma Tui came with us too. We drove to Picton and sailed out of Waikawa Bay Marina to Endeavour Inlet. We stayed at the Endeavour Resort which had a really cool hammock. There were Wekas outside our cabin everyday. Every night we played Uno. We walked through the bush to Furneaux Lodge. There were lots of Tui’s and other native birds following us through the bush. We saw lots of jellyfish from the jetty at Furneaux Lodge and when we were sailing. On the Tuesday we sailed to Resolution Bay where my Dad went for holidays when he was little. We fed the fish from the jetty. On Wednesday we sailed to Ship Cove. This is where Captain Cook landed 7 times. It is really beautiful. There is a big monument and some old cannons. We went fishing and caught blue cod for dinner. On Thursday we sailed back to Waikawa Bay. We went to the EcoWorld aquarium in Picton where they had lots of big fish, sting rays, seahorses, packhorse crayfish, shark egg cases, an octopus, turtles, and a dead giant squid. They also had geckos and tuataras and red-crowned kakariki parrots. The next day we went to Blenheim and camped on the boat at the Omaka Classic Fighters Airshow. We saw lots of old World War 1 planes and Billybob even got to sit in the ejection seat of an Air Force plane. They also had old tanks & fire engines and a vintage car display. On the way home we stopped to look at the seals at Kaikoura. Thanks for coming on holiday with us Billybob. We had lots of fun together.
Jack Clarkson
