We all hopped in the river for a swim! Much cheaper then paying for showers. Rowan needed to send a picture to his friend so you guys may as well see his full moon too!

From Murchison we headed to Nelson. There was a lot of road works so it took longer than normal. We stopped at Wakefield for a pie (the best in my opinion). From there we had some errands to run in Nelson. Pharmacy, Vodafone etc. When walking through a shop Jenna had some friends see her unexpectedly. They had met in Hokitika. We invited them along to join us in the Aniseed Valley for a rock hunt in the afternoon. Once done hunting it was still fairly early so we headed to Marahau where Jenna wanted to stay. There is a burger joint there called Fat Tui and it is supposed to be really good. We order our burgers and they say they won’t be ready till 8pm so we find our camp and set up the tent. The inside will need to wait. From camp we walk down to the burger joint and wait. The wait ends up being 40min, which is annoying because we could have set up camp properly. The burgers finally are ready, I found them to be a bit bland and lacking flavour but Jenna loves them.

When we got back to the barn campground it was really smelly. They must have a full septic tank or something. Very unpleasant indeed. It was quite late by the time we set up and showered.