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Photo credits

All 24 photographs on this site are openly-licensed images of Picton or Queen Charlotte Sound, by the people named below, reused under the licence listed. None is stock and none is generated. Illustrations on place cards are our own.

Picton harbour and marina in late afternoon sun, the town wrapped around the head of the bay with bush hills behind — Picton, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui. Almost everywhere you can eat in this town is inside this frame.

Wide panorama across Picton harbour, the marina berths and the ferry wharves under low cloud — The harbour end to end: marina, wharves, and the hills that close the town in.

London Quay, Picton's waterfront street, with cafe umbrellas and people at outdoor tables opposite the marina — London Quay — the waterfront strip, tables out, a few minutes' walk from the ferry.

High Street, Picton's main street, lined with blue banners, shopfronts and parked cars, hills rising behind — High Street, the main street, one block up from the water.

High Street in bright sun, with people sitting at tables outside shopfronts and blue Picton banners overhead — High Street on a good day. This is what most of the year looks like here.

High Street looking south, shopfronts and a pharmacy along the footpath under a blue sky — High Street looking south — the everyday end of town.

Picton and its marina seen from the water, with yachts moored and the town spread along the shoreline — The town from the water — how most visitors first see it.

A mussel barge hauled out on a slipway beside the water, with floats and gear stacked around it — A mussel barge up on the slip. Marlborough's green-lipped mussels come off boats like this one.

Picton's working wharves at the head of the sound, with vessels alongside and forested hills on both shores — The working end of the harbour, at the head of the sound.

Devon Street in Picton, a quiet residential street with weatherboard houses and bush hills behind — Devon Street. Two minutes off the main street and the town is all weatherboard and hillside.

Kent Street in Picton, a wide road into town with parked vehicles and hills in the distance — Kent Street, the road in.

A curving stone seawall on Picton's waterfront reaching out over clear turquoise water — The seawall on the waterfront, and the colour the water goes on a still day.

A Picton street with planted median, banners and low buildings, looking towards the hills — A street in the town centre — planters, banners, and not much traffic.

The ornate two-storey Victorian facade of the Oxley's Hotel building in Picton, photographed in black and white — The Oxley's Hotel facade — one of the older frontages still standing in town.

Picton railway station and neighbouring buildings seen from Auckland Street — Picton railway station, seen from Auckland Street.

Moored boats and jetty piles in still water under low fog, sun burning through behind — Fog burning off the moorings. Picton mornings do this.

The Interislander ferry Aratere underway in the Marlborough Sounds — The Aratere, inbound through the Sounds. A good share of the town's lunch trade arrives this way.

Picton's ferry terminal wharves on the foreshore with ships alongside — The ferry terminal. From here the walk into town is measured in minutes, not kilometres.

Picton's foreshore reserve with the marina and moored yachts, London Quay behind — The foreshore, with the marina and London Quay behind it.

View from a hillside lookout down over Picton, its marina and Queen Charlotte Sound — Looking down over the town and marina from the hills above.

Aerial view of the drowned river valleys of the Marlborough Sounds — The Marlborough Sounds — drowned river valleys reaching in from Cook Strait.

The Edwin Fox Maritime Museum building on Picton's waterfront — The Edwin Fox Maritime Museum, on the waterfront.

Clear blue sky over the rocky coastline of Queen Charlotte Sound on a still Marlborough day — Marlborough's dry, bright climate — the reason so much of the eating here happens outdoors.

A Picton water taxi launch underway in the Marlborough Sounds — A water taxi off Picton — how the bays and lodges around the Sounds get supplied.