Abel Tasman – Farewell Spit – Takaka – Abel Tasman - english version

View from the campground

on our way to the Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman Coast Walk

We took the water taxi at 10.30 am. We started on the road and the tractor carried us across the low tide into the water.

Abel Tasman water taxi

We arrived in Torrent Bay and walked over the low tide straight to the Coast walk. At 2 pm we found the right spot for having lunch, Akerstan Bay, such a beautiful spot, that we felt into an one hour power nap! :D By the way we did the Coast walk barefoot! :)

Abel Tasman - Torrent Bay - low tide walk

Abel Tasman Coast Walk

Farewell Spit and Wharariki Beach

The Farewell Spit is a narrow sand spit at the northern end on the south island. It is the longest sandspit in New Zealand, stretching for about 26 km above sea level and another 6 km underwater. The low tide, we were told, can get out up to 10 km. Next to the beach were the sand dunes we walked through. It looks like in the sahara, sand everywhere you look and it was windy!! It was just amazing! :)

Farewell Spit low tide walk

Farewell Spit sand dunes

After the Farewell Spit we went to the Wharariki Beach. But see for yourself what we saw over there: :)

the way to Wharariki Beach

Wharariki Beach

  

Te Waikoropupū Springs – Purest water in New Zealand

There also was a loop track and of course we did it. :) The walk was along the purest water in New Zealand. The visibility has an average of 63 metres. Unfortunately you can´t see on the pictures, how clear the lake actually is, but it´s unbelievable!!!

Te Waikoropupu Springs

Te Waikoropupu Springs

Te Waikoropupu Springs

Pay only for the fish you catch!

Fishing in Takaka

Fabio always wanted to catch a fish! And finally the opportunity was there and his dream came true! :)

Actually Marleen didn’t want to fish herself, but only watch Fabio, but he persuaded her! Oh well, and how it usually goes, three throws and fife minutes later Marleen caught her first very fat fish!! :) Almost 1,8 kilo!! WOOOW!!! Afterwards Marleen put the rod aside and let Fabio have his turn, because it was his dream :) 45 minutes later as Fabio hadn’t caught anything, Marleen had another go. Guess what happened. Three throws and fife minutes later she had her second fish biting. At least Fabio had the opportunity taking it in. His dream eventually came true :) The fish had to be killed at once and was smoked right afterwards. What a feast – yummy. The leftovers we had for dinner and for the next day’s lunch. In total Marleen caught 2,6 Kg of fish! :)

Abel Tasman 2nd

On our way to the end of Abel Tasman we picked up some hitchhikers for the first time. Good decision, we had a great evening! Such nice people! Together we drove to Ligar Bay. Emilio and Federico had a date with two girls. We had a funny evening with a great bbq! :)

BBQ

The guys pitched up their tents there and we drove to a freedom campground. Actually the campground is only for self-contained (own toilet in the camper) allowed but we sneaked in and hid in the last corner behind all the other big camper! :) On the next day we started at 7 am. Back to the beach where the other guys were. We had breakfast and everyone went his own way. The girls and Federico went back to Nelson and Emilio decided to come with us to the Abel Tasman! :) Nice move, and now there is three of us! :)

Emilio and Fabio

Actually we planned to do a walk, but because of Fabios back, hurting again, we decided very fast to stay on the beach! We saw starfishes and a large sting ray close to the beach!! For lunch we had a delicious burger from “The Fat Tui” – if you go there, you have to try it!!! :)

Abel Tasman - Totaranui Beach