Kaiteri Lodge Nelson

... met a man from Birmingham! Who ran a jacket potato stall, and so lunch was saved!! I had the &#8216;pommie&#8217; special of jacket pot with beans!! We had a short wind blown walk along the beach before heading back to the car to find our hostel.<br> Our accommodation was The Custom House, a very old building, the kitchen didn&#8217;t impress us very much so out for dinner we went!! Unfortunately we couldn&#8217;t find anywhere, so we settled for the local fish and chip shop. Where the ...

... too and the rivers are a mecca for Kiwis with their whitebait nets, I am told you just fry them up with beaten egg and they are delicious and apparently they fetch $90 a kilo!! <br>The Raiders are away again this w/e and currently lying third on the league table with a game in hand so this is an important game for them and their last away game. <br>The Spring is meant to be the windiest part of the year but so far the ...

... After chilling on the beach and having some peanut butter sandwiches I continued my walk to Torrent Bay, meeting Rachael's guided hike and ended up getting a guided walk for free!! We eventually made our way back to the Aquataxi from Torrent Bay. I got home at 6pm, exhausted and spent the evening watching television with Chanelle and Lucy.<br><br>Nelson Day 44<br><br>Today I got up rather late, but headed over to the centre of New Zealand, from the top of the peak ...

Journal pour les 18, 19, 20, 21 et 22 mars Le matin sur Cable Beach alors que je me promenais pour prendre LA photo National Geographic, j'ai entendu Guylaine crier qu'elle se faisait attaquer par des oiseaux. Je me suis vite apperçu qu'il s'agissait de Fantail, un petit oiseaux qui aime bien les humains car ceux-ci attirent les sandflies (version NZ de la mouche noire mais dont la piqure chatouille encore trois jours plus tard, bref ...

... waterfalls. It was about putting a tiny boat through tinier spaces and dropping between rock ledges. It was interesting. We went down half the waterfalls backwards. There was a lot of jumping around and crunching of the boat to get it to fit through tight tight spaces. It was a beautiful secluded river though, and the only commericial rafts on it are the four that go out each day from the River Valley lodge. The 2 ...

... little islands and saw spotted, black and pied shags! then a little blue penguin appeared and was curiously bobbing just to far away to get a pic but he was really cute (they're quite rare!!) then some more birds before we saw two seals!! one on a rock, one in the water but they werent in the mood for playing unfortunately...got some good pics tho!!! paddled through a mussel farm which was weird...tons of ropes hanging down into the ocean that had ...

... what to do the next day, which coincidentally turned out to be Nelson's annual holiday so they were both off work. We decided to spend the day in Abel Tasman National Park so we drove as far as you can then caught an Aquataxi. This is a speedboat which seats 20 and, as we had signed up for 'A Slice of Paradise' (or 'a Slice of Pav' as the staff referred to it), the driver took us from the bottom of the park right up to the top and then dropped ...

Car wouldn't start this morning, dead battery!! No mobile phone reception and I'm in the **** end of nowhere, first car calamity I've had in 29,000km on the road this year. Luckily a few cars are dotted around camp so I have some hope of getting a jump start if someone has some leads!! Did manage to get the car started in the end, luckily a British couple had jump leads, thank god! But this ended up being the least of my worries on this eventful day. Found out at ...

... Buller Schlucht (diesen Teil hatte ich schon einmal gesehen nach dem Heaphy Track). Morgen geht es nach Wellington, dort gab es einen recht heftigen Sturm - nun Wind ist in Wellington nichts ungewoehnliches, aber es wurden dennoch einige Daecher abgedeckt. Gruss Ralf P.S. Fun Fact Thirteen of the world's 18 penguin species have been recorded in the New Zealand region (including the Ross Dependency/Antarctica).

... Tasman National Park catching a water taxi into the park and dodging showers before timing the tides so we could cross the river estuaries - it was still waist deep and freezing cold even at low tide something a group of elederly Japanese ladies did not appreciate as they rolled up their trousers to just above their knees - oh how we laughed knowing that the water had reached our waists!!