It was a beautiful 3.5 hour boat ride from Wellington on the North Island to Picton on the South Island.
We are definitely getting closer to Antarctica, but we didn't see any penguins!
Most of the roads are two lane roads, and windy, so it takes a while to get from A to B, so we have learned to go by the suggested travel times and not kilometres. We stopped for lunch at a beautiful lake.
A Little History
We stayed in Marahau, a tiny village with 200 inhabitants! As it is the main gateway to the Abel Tasman National Park. Abel Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, and the first known European to reach the Australian island now called Tasmania, as well as New Zealand.
We were taking a boat up the coast and then hike the 24km back to Marahau. The Abel Tasman area has crazy tides; up to 6m difference between low and high tide, so we entered the boat on land, and got transported into the ocean by a tractor.
Quite funny to sit in a boat with the life jacket on driving on the road! We saw Split Appel Rock.
It was a beautiful ride up the coast.
We got dropped of at Bark Bay, and headed south along the track.
Most of the hike was in the trees but there was some beautiful view points along the way.
We took a 'small' detour of 3km to have a swim and lunch at the secluded Watering Cove.
It was the easiest 28km we had ever done, but we were tired of walking at the end of the day. We just made it before the end of Happy Hour at the bar. What a relief!
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