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Travel Blogs from Nelson
Abel Tasman National Park
... have all the driftwood on them. It is a lovely area for walking.
We took the scenic coastal drive back and had a look round Nelson during the day. The town itself is not `touristy` but has lots of interesting old buildings.
Thursday 6th December
A bright sunny morning so we walked around the botanical hill area which has a sports field where ...
The motivation
... people will (either deliberately or not) find work to do to fill up their eight hours. Or you even have the ridiculous situation of people competing with each other to see who can "work the hardest" by staying late and expanding their work to fit their extended work day. I shouldn't judge, of course, as this was me for a long time - putting in overtime for no reason other than to impress the boss so that he would give me even more work. Even as a self-employed freelancer, I still ...
Shags!!
... in the water. These seals are a protected species in New Zealand and have been since 1917. We never at any point got off the boat but the skipper instead switched off the engine so not to disturb the seals, and so we could watch them for a while and take photos. Unfortunately we couldn't have the sail up on the boat as there wasn't enough wind. We continued our journey past Te Pukatea Bay onto Split Apple Rock (here is ...
So it all begins!!! Again!
... of a full bus of 40+. ... Cover much of the same ground as the Van trip from hell! Well it was to paradise, the rise back was from hell, POS van therostat was sticking and causing it to blow all the water out, had to stop at 3 points to refill with water we claimed from water troughs and ditches in the surrounding fields... I hated the van from that day forward (not that I ever got to drive it, but that's another story, oh and the guy ripped us off in the end with ...
Abel Tasman, Forests and Beaches
... wel zo een beetje de hele bootreis waardoor we weinig tijd krijgen om van het uitzicht te genieten, maar niet getreurd we hebben wel wat ontiegelijk vette dingen geboekt tegen spotprijsjes. Vanuit Picton rijden we meteen door naar Kaiteriteri dat aan de voet van het Abel Tasman National Park ligt. Bij de vriendelijke kiwi hebben we hier namelijk een tocht doorheen geboekt. De weg zelf is weer prachtig en op aanwijzing van ...