We woke up early as always on these kind of trips, jumped into the Car and headed to Marahau. This was the starting point for our trek. We parked up on the beach front, gold sand lay in front of us. Behind us were several huts, each offering different tour and boat taxi services around the Tasman. We located the tour company we had booked the night before. Boarded the boat and headed off to Medlands Beach the start point of our trek. En route we passed Split Appl...

The Canterbury bank holiday was fast approaching, Stevie was up in Wellington on work training. So we arranged for her return flight to go to Nelson so we could explore the Abel Tasman. I had the Friday off and would hire a car and meet her up in Nelson. I would say I woke up early, like the start of most of our blogs, but I had a day to drive up as I didn't need to meet Stevie until 20:30. I started the journey like most. Stopping off at McDonalds to indulge i...

After a surprising night sleep, we got up early to head to 'Whale watch', The weather had turned, it was early, windy and the sea was rough as the rain set in. As a precaution we all took some sea sickness tablets to help the 3 hr round trip. When we arrived for our 7.45 tour we discovered that the previous tour had a group of 56 people cancel. Luckily they combinded both tours so we could continue with our trip. After a quick intro and video about whales, we w...

We wanted to hit the road to Kiakoura early as yesterday's drive was 5 hours more than expected. We quickly loaded the car and headed up to Greymouth, then headed east at Reefton down route 7. Although the weather was turning, the low cloud going through Lewis Pass created majestic views as the tops of the mountains pieced through the clouds. We stopped a few times to take in the scenery. It wasn't long before we were chasing the beautiful Waiau River all the way...

Today was going to be a full day on the road so we decided to make as many stops as possibly to break up the drive. Our aim was to head up the west coast from Queenstown to Greymouth. We headed out of Queenstown up route 6 passed the bridge bungee again. Another opportunity to do a bungee, still I couldn't do it. Maybe next time. We headed north to Wanaka, the views of Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea were amazing. The still lake mirrored the snow capped mountains tha...