Saturday, May 02, 2009

Abel Tasman national park

So, going backwards in the trip, here's some views in and around Abel Tasman national park.

Here's a view of Split Apple rock, just off the coast from Towers Bay in between Kaiteriteri and Marahau.

We were dropped off at Te Pukatea beach where we had a nice spot of lunch (part one), before taking a walk up to Pitt head. On the way up, you could get a full view of Te Pukatea:
After Pitt head, we made our way to "The Anchorage". This is the kind of view on the way.

Finally, after we were collected from the Anchorage after consuming Lunch (part two), we went for a drive back through Motueka and up Takaka Hill. This is the view from Takaka Hill back towards Motueka, with quite some zoom.
After this was back down the hill again and back to Kaiteri Lodge for the evening, including an attempt to wash clothes that ended up in quite a bit of damp clothing that became increasingly unpleasant through the rain we were going to face.

2 comments:

anti ob said...

Looks very cool! Trying to place some of these places in terms of my own trip in NZ... which was 15 years ago now, so I'm feeling justified in being a bit vague.

MrSnerg said...

Yeah that's a pretty good excuse :-) Here's the map which jogged my memories of the place names... we actually got the water taxi from these guys http://www.abeltasmanseashuttles.co.nz/abeltasmanwatertaxis.php