We were off on the road again this morning and were heading to a National Park area- Abel Tasman which apparently is a "NZ must do". The weather was nice and as per usual the drive was filled with fantastic scenery. We arrived around lunch time and decided to make the most of the sunshine by walking around the coastal track. The track took us down to the beach where we had a paddle in the freezing sea and set off back to the campsite. Two hours later...

For the second time on our trip we packed away a wet tent at 6.00am and set off to the ferry port as we were travelling across to the south island on a cruiser which should take about three hours. We got a bit of a panic on at one stage when there was an accident on the highway and we got stuck in traffic, we arrived with only 10 minutes to spare. We sat in some comfy chairs once on the ferry and caught up on the news. We found out that there has been a cyclon...