We were heading south and felt a duty to stop in Invercargill even though 1st impressions were decidedly dour. Even the most run down scottish town (I'm recalling Inverness on a similar grey day) would seem quite jolly after Invercargill and it didn't improve on a walk round tour. Was it by english design that the scottish settlers were sent to the cold south and proceeded to turn it into a copy of their homeland or was it in their nature to look for the coldest, gloomiest part of the country to colonise.

We pushed on to Bluff at the very bottom and had an interesting  tour of the maritime museum which we had to ourselves. The ferry to Stewart Island was stuck in port due to the high wind so we drove out to Stirling point and fought the wind along the coast path.