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Karamea
Travel Blogs from Karamea, New Zealand
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Commune Culture
This is a top pick! ... nasty little buggers. Later on we enjoyed a weka sighting at the rest area. These flightless birds are like the wild chickens of New Zealand. They were almost driven to extinction because they’re so easy to catch. I could’ve easily nabbed one ...
Decided to stay
... . wee got on the water and decided to paddle down the smaller stream/river rather than the big river that would have lead into Karamea. Hardly had to paddle at all on the way upstream due to the tide, however it was a different matter once we turned ...
Getting off the Tourist Trail
... Westport and on the edge of the huge Kahurangi national park, generally accepted to be the second most inaccessible area of New Zealand after the Fiordland. It's a place where practicality rules and our accommodation reflected that - being based on ...
Nearly the end of the road!
... into a parcel that we have sent to her parents……all that writing and we have to do it all again. At the outskirts of Karamea we went past a holiday park that we thought was too far out. We went into town and down as far as the beach but could ...
Back from Heaphy
... 'il se plaint c'est qu'il a encore de l'energie" :D. Bon, a la fin il parlait plus :)). Apres le trek, direction Karamea, une petite biere pour se remettre, et nous avons passe la nuit dans une auberge baba-cool super sympatoche, Rongo backpackers, ou ...
Day 205: Heaphy Trail: Heaphy Hut to Karamea
... first thing I do when I book into the Last Resort hotel is gorge myself in their café. There is a sweet neighbourliness to tiny Karamea. The National Park and protests have put paid to any plans to link the road through to Nelson, so it truly is a ...
Karamea
... het geen probleem om 1 uur voordat de bus vertrekt nog een kaartje te kopen waar ik als enige passagier mee kon naar Karamea!! De bus deed ook dienst als couriers bedrijf dus onderweg zijn we bij verscheidene adressen gestopt om pakketjes af te leveren. ...
Spiders Ruin Everything!
... sliding around with no grit on the icy road, but we did make it! We even had enough time to stroll the 110m of New Zealand's longest swing bridge. And admire the force of nature at the epicentre of the 1929 earthquake at the White Creek faultline. As ...
Karamea, the Oparara Arch and the Heaphy Track
... back to Westport on Wednesday. Seriously though, three vans?!?! Around eleven, we finally got on the road and headed up to Karamea. A lovely sunny morning and a lovely drive, part by coast and part through some high hills. Checked in to our site – ...
Rest days
We've just finished up a rest day at Karamea, just outside of Kahurangi National Park--staying in a tiny, funky bunkhouse in a tiny town that's the jumping off point for the Park. It's been blissfully quiet. This is the equivalent of a motorcamp, ...
Oparara Basin
... lake. We got absolutely drenched. We drove back the 16kms along the gravel road to the junction &, instead of returning to Karamea I turned right & we went along to Kohaihai, which is where the Heaphy Track actually starts (or ends). The Karamea ...
West Coast (North)
Our main reason for going to Karamea was to do part of the Heaphy Track. The part we did was a 2 day costal walk. Such different scenery from the Abel Tasman. It was very enjoyable. We were last to the hut, so we got crap beds & the sand flies eat ...
May 15, 2010
Wwoofing in Karamea
... from the map we've been back and forth quite a bit on a few whims so we could chase the sunshine! We're now in Karamea which is a beautiful little place on the Northern end of the West Coast. We're wwoofing again for an elderly couple (Russell and Edie) ...
A Day At The Races
... squalls of lashing rain and icy wind. Thank goodness for 21st century clothing and hot showers. We're now at Rongo in Karamea, where last night there was an interesting talk on astronomy (fortunately not astrology as the owner seemed to think). We now ...
Karamea
Dia 9: Partimos hacia Karamea. Un nuevo fin del mundo. Esto no estaba ni en el planing inicial, queda muy a desmano, 200 km más pal pecho. Y más vale, porque sitios así sí que son difíciles de encontrar. Verde, prados, mar, bosque, monte, sin ...
OUR TROPICAL CHRISTMAS: Ngakawau & Karamea
... you imagine where we spent most of our time??? The following day, we hiked part of the Heaphy track, one of New Zealand's "Great Walks" which took us through the palm-shaded forest to a very tranquil Scott's Beach. We spent the afternoon there ...
It's Hip to be square
... picture at the end shows the 'ship' formation. Karamea really is the end of the road, two hours from Westport over the Karamea bluff. We stopped for the beautifully named Charming Creek walk, along the remains of a logging railway, and then over the hill ...
Tramping bro!
Testing out some new shoes and re-bonding with my pack I set out on a tramping expedition with some equally intrepid whanau - Pete, Ruth and Josie. We walked in to the first hut of the Heaphy Track and back. Truly magnificent. What a ...
Heaphy Track, Kahurangi National Park
After five days and nights camping on the Heaphy Track in Kahurangi National Park, all we can say is WOW--what a beautiful and varied landscape. We covered 82 km (50 mi), climbed to 950 meters, and crossed from the east to the rugged west coast, ending ...
One last time to the West Coast
... lunch (the last time we were here was for lunch as well - not much else going on here tho) and headed up to Westport and then Karamea. It was a lovely scenic drive - lots of ferns on one side and sea on the other. The drive was just over 5 hours from ...
Karemea and Around
... walk along the river bank through mossy rock escarpments and woodlands that looked 100000 million years old. You could really understand why New Zealand was so suitable as location for the filming of Lord of the Rings. This whole area is just stunning ...
Lots of activities, lots of kilometres!
... metres into the water - no surprise I passed on that one! After the rafting we headed along the river to the longerst swingbridge in New Zealand over the Buller Gorge. I'm not a big fan of walking over swingbridges (which is why I'd be rubbish at Go ...
Karamea
Saturday 7th May We woke up to another rainy day,our plans to explore an area north of Karamea called Oparara had to be cancelled because of it being a single track unsealed road, It was dissapointing because we were looking forward to exploring the ...
Pukakaiki & to Karamea
... river is a grade 5. Close by is the beginning (or end) of the famous Heaphy Track as well as the Wangapeka & Karamea/Leslie tracks. I drove round the township to see what was there & saw Rongo Backpackers so went in to investigate. It really is ...
Rain, Rain, Go Away...
... I took a picture of one before we left - I was sure it would jump at my face when the flash went off! We stopped in Karamea to write to Adam, a guy we’d tried to couchsurf with a few days earlier. He had been busy then, but told us to let him ...
Rustige wandeldag
... de track en de rest van de wereld. Ik maak hiervan gebruik om de gps in te stellen en wat te lezen van Karamea, mijn volgende overnachting. Uiteindelijk kan ik dan vertrekken voor een rit van 1u20 ongeveer langs de Karamea Highway, volgens mij waren de ...
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