Last night it rained all night, so, as you can imagine, neither of us had a very good night’s sleep because all we could hear was the pitter-patter of rain multiplied by a hundred on the tin roof of the campervan.
Luckily by the time we had woken up the rain had stopped and it was turning into a nice day. We had planned to get the 9am water taxi up the Abel Tasman coast to Bark Bay and then walk back to Marahau, about a six hour trek. Unfortunately, we slept in by accident and it turned out that the next water taxi wasn’t until 12:30pm. We decided instead to walk from Marahau to Torrent Bay, about a four hour trek, and then catch the water taxi back to Marahau at 3:30pm.
It was a really beautiful walk; the perfect temperature, and some gorgeous scenery too. All in all we must have walked around 22km – we were both very tired by the time we arrived at Torrent Bay – a rest on the swing was a must...
Our water taxi arrived half an hour early – lucky we were already there as it would have gone without us otherwise, as they were just about to leave when we rocked up. It was an interesting ride back to Marahau with two red-neck North Carolinians and two Asian girls, followed by being pulled out of the water by a sea-faring tractor, which then drove us to our final destination. It was quite surreal being pulled along in a boat, by a tractor, on the road.
The next leg of the trip was the four hour journey to Kaikoura on the west coast – we stopped along the way for some Thai food, and finally arrived at the campsite (having thought we were going to run out of petrol, as at least the last 40 minutes of the journey was spent on the red) at about 9pm.
Tired from walking and driving we were soon asleep...after the bed had been put up of course, which is always a half an hour effort with Anal Dave (my new nickname for him) as he has to get his ruler out and make sure everything is symmetrical, parallel, perpendicular, blah blah blah.
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