Ocean Lodge Motels Nelson
20 Muritai St., Tahunanui Nelson, South Island, New Zealand
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Day 1 of New Zealand South Island Road Trip
... with a lot of National Parks and things to do. They also say it has the sunniest days in New Zealand, so that might be kind of nice. The drive to Nelson was beautiful, but slow, back to driving through winding roads on the edge of mountains.
The park we are staying in is beautiful, with a lot to do right here for the kids, we relaxed for a while, and then went for a run. This time Mikkel ...
Heading for the south island
Left River Valley at about lunchtime, I was glad not to be doing my activities in the morning like everyone else, it meant I could sleep in til gone 9 and then could just hang out in the lodge while I waited, also turns out I was lucky with the horse trek weather as those that went up this morning had terrible rain and wind so couldn't go up to the top of the valley like we did, those that did rafting didn’t care – they were getting wet anyway! Today was all about the ...
Friendlier Seals, and good bye South Island!
... looked like lovely towns, however, we hadnt planned to stop there, so we just carried on.
In the morning, we were up really early and had to drive only a bit further to Motueka before waiting till the Abel Tasman sea kayaking place opened, we enquired about going this morning, and to our delight, the woman said we could and gave us instructions to drive upto Kaiteriteri, where we could bored a boat which would take us into the ...
Chillout time in Nelson
... innards! After struggling through about 3 each we gave up, eating around them as best we could. Oh well, you can’t get it right every time, and we were happy with just the bread and wine.
Though Nelson was essentially uneventful, that’s what we enjoyed about it. We took some time planning the next leg of our trip and spent the rest of it eating, drinking and just plain taking it easy, which we’ll always be happy ...
Toilet Etiquette (or the merits of BluTack)
... Andrea, one of the intermediate teachers, telling one of the boys in particular that if he needed to "make a dump" then he should put toilet paper in the toilet first and then go, this way it would not leave "skid marks" on the loo. Now the toilets at our centre have been designed in some odd way, that it is inevitable that if you do make a solid deposit, that there will be a stain left afterwards. (I wonder if when they design toilets, they check out those ...


