Feeling energetic we decided to do a few walks to explore the area of Golden Bay and Abel Tasman National Park. The first stop was Wainui Falls. You'd think we had seen enough waterfalls by now in New Zealand! The higlight of this walk was crossing the very unstable and quite scary 'suitable for 1 person only' swing bridge over a surging river below. Made it! We quickly checked out the memorial to Abel Tasman (first person to ever sale to New Zealand, though he...

We left Blenheim and started making our way towards the Abel Tasman National park. On the way we stopped in Nelson for a look round and for some lunch. Fortunatley its much nicer than its Lanashire namesake. There was quite a bit to do here but we decided to carry on and got all the way to Pohara Beach, from here we should be able to explore the national park tomorrow.