Sea kayak tour – Kaiteriteri to Split Apple Rock
Finally! When we were here the last time, Verena was still too young to participate in a sea kayak tour (minimum age is 8), but…
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Abel Tasman National Park
This time we took a sea shuttle from Kaiteriteri to Tonga Quarry and had a nice 2.5h walk over to Awaroa with our Australian guest…
The tree fella
Two massive gumtrees (aka eucalyptus) at the hill top on our neighbor’s site blocked our morning sun, so we kindly asked them if we were allowed…
Container arrival
I guess we have to call ourselves ‘lucky’ because we’ve found a house to rent just next to our piece of (empty) land. The owners…
Rabbit Island
Here we have two rare examples of the local beach fauna:
Cable Bay
Attempted to climb the sheep hill at Cable Bay. Stopped and returned after 15 minutes. Too hot. No shade up there. Three dead sheep on…
Nelson gardens of the world
Always worth a stopover to enjoy the flowers. :)
Nelson Tahunanui beach
We figured low-tide sandy beaches are the ideal ground for learning how to ride an unicycle. At least it doesn’t hurt that much when you…
New Year’s eve in Nelson
It has rained all day long, but fortunately stopped right in time in the afternoon. We enjoyed our javanese dinner at our temporary home and…
Container sneak preview – and port clearance
Two months and three days after our big rusty metal box has left our place in Austria, it arrived at the port in Nelson, NZ.…