I spent a little over a week in Picton with my host family, and at the end of my stay I was ready to travel to Australia to met up with Becca. I actually was very lucky to stay with the family I did because they were well connected in the small town and through them I met an American family that had recently moved back into the area and lived close to the small airport that I flew out of to get back to Wellington. As it turned out the American family invited me to join them for coffee the night before I was scheduled to leave to talk and give me some advice on the south island, this meeting quickly turned into tea (dinner) and the next thing I knew I was spending the night and had a ride to the airport. This was all worked out a few days before I was scheduled to leave the cabin and really helped me because I was set to get a room in town for the night and take the bus to the airport.
The next morning after leaving the cabin and spending the night with the fellow Americans I jumped on a Cessna 208 Caravan. It is a relatively small plane and it was full, but since I was the second one onboard I got to sit right behind the pilot with my own window. I really enjoy flying in these smaller planes because you get a better sense of what is going on around you, plus the bumps are more fun.
Wellington airport was a lot smaller than I had anticipated, but like most places in New Zealand was well designed and very tidy. I was fortunate to find free wifi in the airport and was able to kill some time before my flight. The trip to Sydney was only 3 hours, I fly on Air New Zealand which is a really nice airline. I arrived in Sydney at 6 pm and made my way to Becca’s friends apartment.
To Australia.
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