Motueka Bed and Breakfasts Reviews and Rates

Orinoco Valley

Another great place to stay, very beautiful. This area is full of fruit farms and pasture land. We're about 30k inland just in front of the Arthur range of mountains.

We arrived to a herd of cows guarding the lane up to our cottage and they are not in the least bit intimidated by humans! Apparently their owners treat them more like pets …

Sunset Valley

What a fabulous place to live, and what a fab way of life too. In fact there is a winery for sale just opposite this one, Moutere Hills, which has 2 houses and a cafe as well as the vines and processing plant all for £500,000. What a bargain!!

We're staying in a holiday home in Sunset Valley Vinyard. It is very beautiful and serene. We …

Seals, South Island and Sun

Hello everybody,

We're in Motueka on South Island, near Abel Tasman National Park. We took the crossing this morning, unfortunately it was ****** weather (Kevin's expression :)). The ferry goes from Wellington to Picton, when it arrives at South Island it has to go through the Queen Charlotte Sound. It's a beautiful fjord and when the sun …

Ufly Extreme and journey to Picton

After waking up a little achy, looking out the window the sky was blue and the sun was out, perfect for a morning flight of loops and spins!

We made our way to the airport, and once again we were greeted by the friendly Vincent, all the locals that we have spoken to have said that Vincent is crazy and a little mad but I suppose you have to …

The Wonderful Waldins

Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd December 2010
It rained throughout the night and the wind rustled the tarp so much that Tom was forced to enter the darkness to secure it. Come morning, we were up and moving pretty early and took a walk down to the small beach at Cowshed Bay. Despite the elements and the consequent murky …

Abel Tasmen

From Motueka i drove 10 minutes up the road to marahu and got a water taxi to torent bay in the able tasmen national park, the taxi past split apple rock and drove along the coast up to the bay, i jumped out of the taxi and started the 16km walk back to where i had parked my car, only 1 other person got off at the same stop as me a swiss guy so we …

Stop and stare

Woo hoo! We finally made it, we went kayaking in the Abel Tasman National Park. And seriously... we were sooo good! Yep! Unfortunately our group, constisting of 6 people plus guide, was not one of the fastest, due to two Asian girls who had no clue what they were doing at all and zig zag kayaking around the bay like carzy. We would have rocked this …

Abel Tasman Kayaking - Day 3

We woke today after a roaring wind all night. 25-30knot winds howled all night. By 4am, they settled down, and when we woke, there was a very dark and defined front moving in across the coast. We thought we were about to get hit with rain, but once again, we somehow dodged the rain. After our last meal of oatmeal and tea (hopefully) we packed our …

Kayaking and Walking in Abel Tasman NP

It took a long day of driving to get to our next destination, Abel Tasman National Park. This is the smallest national park in New Zealand but many people go there to walk or kayak the coastline. When we finally pulled into town at around 8pm and after we checked into our campervan park we headed to town to find a bite to eat. Mom's guidebook …

More camp action

having camped for our second night in renwick, we've opted for a fewnights under canvas again. at least the tent here is already up and we can stand up in it! hiking and sailing. more info to follow when i find a cheaper internet place! ps. mark hampshire - your message for me was still on the beach. yes!! yes! yes!! of course i'll marry you. xxxx …