Marahau Lodge Abel Tasman

... a swim is in order. The tide is out so I have to walk far out across the sandbars to the water. Nice end to the day. ABel Tasman Day 3 - Bark Bay to Awaroa  11.5km The wide expanse of Bark Bay and it's immense sandbars are shrouded in mist as I ...

... be trained for our kayaking trip which seemed to last a while, before we were let loose on the water. We were kayaking from Marahau up to Anchorage Bay, where we were staying the first night. We kayaked first to Apple Tree Bay, meeting Bek, Jenny and ...

... we'll get to Wanui before darkness. At this time another Israeli that arrived at Awaroa joined us in order to get a ride back to Marahau. Since the tide wasn't that low we had to walk a few houndred meters in the water of almost a meter deep. So ...

... anniversary of her birth. Therefore, we decided to celebrate her special day tomorrow, when we arrived in Nelson. We said our final farewells to Abel Tasman. It was a turbulent love affair that started out well, but then she had to go and rock the ...

... section had these wonderful vibrant art sculptures hanging from the cieling. Had a chuckle then stocked up on food for our trek in Abel Tasman. I am surprised at how much I am craving health food but I feel alot better for it. The produce guy was really ...

Hiking Abel Tasman National Park After our night on board the floating hostel, we hiked 5 hours further up the coast. The sun is very hot when you are in direct light and the air is moist, but the terrain is surprisingly dry, considering the incessant ...

... without backpacks (sort of).  Hello to you all.    We have spent the past few days tramping through the Abel Tasman National Park in the north of the south island of New Zealand.  Abel Tasman was the first white man (who, of ...

... la piste Gilles Villeneuve). Vers 10h00, après mon dernier café pour 5 jours, j’ai débuté la randonnée en partant de Marahau. Avec une température favorable, j’ai marché pendant plus de 3 heures (12 km) pour me rendre à ma petite ...

... felt, as we were fairly whacked out after our two day's hiking with back-packs. Let it not be said that hiking in the Abel Tasman National Park is a walk in the park). We then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening chatting with our fellow hikers, ...

Abel Tasman coastal path-all 50 odd km of it! Well this has been an adventure which I know will keep me going when I have to return to work! Monday caught a bus to Marahau which is the start of the trek where I had a hostel for the night-Old MacDonalds ...

... areas again - ST Arnaud and Mt Richmond - all the quiet back ways.  Arrived in Motueka our next stop close to Abel Tasman National Park.  The town was provincial with lots of quirky places to eat - alternative hippy places, and a "Hot ...

... on to Nelson and organised our trek (or tramp as they seem to love to call them over here) for Abel Tasman, including kayaking on day 1 and the Awaroa Lodge (a lovely wedding present from Ed and Hazel). Of course the day would not have been complete ...

... of it with reception as they would do a "pack transfer" for us. Today, we will journey by kayak from Marahau to The Anchorage, a bay in the Abel Tasman. We've done a bit of kayaking before and sure hoped that we hadn't bitten off more than we would be ...

... hrt wird. Zum Unternehem gehören Subunternehmen in allen Branchen, unter anderem auch im Tourismus. Ich sollte also den Tag in Marahau bei Abel Tasman Kayak, Kateriteri Kayaks und Aqua Taxi verbringen. Los ging's um 7.10am ich musste also schon um halb 6 ...

... On an almost empty tank and only a few minutes before our water taxi was scheduled to arrive, we pulled into the estuarine town of Marahau.  It was low tide, so a tractor towed our water taxi out over hundreds of meters of sand and into the water, a ...

Monday, February 8, 2010 It is Monday evening and we are in our hotel resting after a wonderful three-day trek through Abel Tasman National Park. I will not bore you with too much detail but I did want to share some of the highlights. The park sits on the ...

... im Wasser abzukühlen und am Strand zu relaxen. Genau das tat ich auch. Um 12:00 Uhr war es dann Zeit sich vom Abel Tasman Park zu verabschieden. Mit Rucksack auf dem Rücken stapfte ich auf das Wassertaxi zu. Nahm Platz. Doch irgendwas fehlte. Fu**!!! ...

... a fun night in the city. From Nelson, I took yet another bus to Marahau which is a very small town at the entrance to the Abel Tasman National Park in the north-west corner of the South Island. It is said to be one of the most beautiful places in New ...

After amazing weather for our Whale watching trip in Kaikoura it was time for a bit of bad luck. It took us most of the day to drive to the North West of NZ (via Nelson which looked like a very cool town) and when we arrived in Awaroa it was raining ...

Our next destination Marahau is at the tip of the Abel Tasman national park and was only an hour and a halfs drive away, up a steep and windy ‘driveway’ we found our way to Kanuka Ridge. We settled into our room, did some washing and booked ...