Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor is at the bottom of the South Island waiting for the weather to improve in Foveaux Strait.

He's at the Curio Bay campground at the southern end of Porpoise Bay, and restless, says his mum, Lyn Taylor.

Tim Taylor.

'I had an email report that he's been mowing the camp ground lawns,” says Lyn.

'He's a bit restless. The weather continues to get worse and worse down there.”

Tim's waiting four days for a weather window to make the crossing of Foveaux Strait to Stewart Island. Today gale force winds and heavy seas are forecast there.

The outlook for the rest of the week is not much better.

Wednesday, the wind is expected to go round to the southwest and blow another gale. Thursday starts out with light winds before reaching 30 knots in the evening.

'I think he's picked the worst summer,” says Lyn.

Tim was originally planning to round Stewart Island in a clockwise direction, but he may change that.

'The coastguard lady down there has told him to go around Stewart Island anti-clockwise because of weather patterns.

'If you happen to see on his website that he is going a different way that's the reason why. If the weather ever even clears.”

Tim paddled out of Tauranga on November 27 intending to be the first person to circum kayak New Zealand in a single voyage.