Queen Charlotte Sound

North of Picton is Queen Charlotte Sound, a beautiful arm of the sea with many picturesque inlets. The best way to see the marvelous coastal scenery is by boat - the finest places are Mistletoe Bay, the Bay of Many Coves, Endeavor Inlet, Resolution Bay and Ship Cove. The Queen Charlotte Walkway, a beautiful trail offering no great difficulties, runs from Anakiwa to Ship Cove. There is also a road, Queen Charlotte Drive, through this picturebook landscape. From Picton there are organized boat excursions and fishing trips that take visitors, among other places, to Ship Cove, where Captain Cook called in several times, Queen Charlotte Sound and further out into the Marlborough Sounds. For divers there is a trip to the wreck of the Soviet cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov, which sank in Port Gore in 1986.