We spent three beautiful days hiking in Abel Tasman National Park, on one of New Zealand's "Great Walks" trails. A water taxi took us out to our starting point at Awaroa. Check out the awesome water-worthy tractors they use to drive and release the water taxis into the water after they load all of us in there on land at their office down the road:
And considering we'd decided to bypass the expense of kayaking the park, it was fun to see it by water on our way to the start of our hike--including a stop at "Split Apple Rock":
Once we were back on dry land, we just walked and walked south, back to the town where we'd parked--which of course took far longer than the two hours it took for the water taxi to ferry us north. It was the perfect balance: sleeping in as much as we wanted in the a.m., getting packed up and walking about four hours, and then relaxing and doing whatever we wanted until it was time to bunk down in one of the group huts along the trail, and then do it all again the next day. Pretty sweet. Hope you enjoy the pics of the gorgeous coastline up here in the north of the South Island!
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