An Australian couple have had to cut short their bucket-list New Zealand tour because they can't get on a ferry.
On a campervan tour, twice they've had crossings from the South Island to the North Island cancelled, first by the Interislander, and then this week by Bluebridge.
Chris Banney and Jenny Cassells planned to spend four weeks in the South Island and two weeks in the North, before flying home to Queensland.
Banney says the trip was extra special because his partner has motor neurone disease, and the couple aren't sure how long she has left.
This morning they're heading home, two weeks early, because they're stranded in the South Island.
Banney spoke to Corin Dann.