Today, the Oosterdam docked in the small town of Picton for the first time ever. Unfortunately, most of the stores in town were closed due to a local holiday. As far as we can tell, there isn’t much of cultural interest in Picton, but it has several nice hiking trails (aka tramping tracks in New Zealand, bushwalks in Australia). After we disembarked the ship and compulsory shuttle, we walked along the main street in town, stopping at a supermarket to buy a lunch of pies and a scone. (The pies were just terrible, which taught me a valuable lesson about buying meat pies at the supermarket.) After a quick stop at the library to log onto the free WiFi, we started our hike. We spent about half an hour walking to a small beach called Bob’s Bay where we planned to eat lunch until it started raining on us. After the rain stopped, we walked up to a harbourview lookout and then to a trailhead on the “snout”, a long forested peninsula. Because we were tired, we didn’t actually walk the hilly 1.5 hour trail to the end of the snout, but it seems like a good trail for people in better shape than us.