Abel Tasman

Ok lots of pictures and little talking is the best way to describe the Abel Tasman Park. Again we were super, super lucky. When we arrived at the kayak rental place and asked him about a 3 day trip, he was like, "there is no chance, everything is booked". but he called anyways and bam, there is one night available at Bark Bay, and one night at Appletree bay. So since bark bay was about a 5.5hr paddle away, we quickly got some food and set off. And boy that first day was rough. lots of water coming over the top and getting us soaked. But as i had more experience than Jesse, i took the rear and steering and so wasn't as wet, well just no face hits, hehe. After one break for some food, we kept going and arrived at Bark Bay. Beautiful spot. There was this group of older kiwi guys, obviously old mates as the were at each other the whole time. But we were allowed a camp fire, which was super nice and they had a bunch of mussels that they had picked to cook over the fire. True camping to us canadians. These guys were quite funny, and kept us laughing for most of the night. we drank both bottles of wine that we had brought. The next morning we woke up slowly, chilled for a bit, waited for the craziness of the water taxis to happen. i mean common people how hard is it to go your own way? then we set out for more paddling. So much calmer this day, we stopped at a gorgeous beach for lunch and such and then in the afternoon when there were no boats out continued to our next camping spot. Set up our tent, right on the beach which was sweet and hung out with this interesting group of people, 3 dutch, 2 austrian, 1 aussie, 1 english and 1 american and just chatted about anything. Once it got to dark and all our hope for any sort of game went away, we hit the sack. Woke up the next day to a glorious morning, played 2 chess games with the aussie, 1-1, but he had to go before we could have a decider. Paddled out into the calm waters and around some islands and then returned to town. We then looked at the map and said hey, Let's go hike the Queen charlotte track!