Abel Tasman

So this morning we are heading out on a kayak tour, which means we had to get up a bit early. But no worries, we have some really good muesli from the market. The markets are really nice, and they have a real wide variety of foods. Some are the same as home some are quite different (very limited on the mexican food products). Anyways we headed on over to the kayak place, got booked in and the took a bus ride out to the beach area where we got on a water taxi boat with our kayaks. There is a whole bunch of these and they run them down this concrete ramp into the water. It's funny to watch these farm tractors pulling boats with people sitting in them. Part of the reason that they use these tractors is that they launch at high tide and pickup at low tide. And since they have the biggest tides in NZ here, and the bay is quite shallow it is close to a quarter mile difference. So what about the kayak trip? Awesome! Really outstanding bays, cool guide named Rohie, ans some nice young folks from Germany and one from Japan. We maybe could have gotten to visit a bit more bays and such but the japanese girl and her german boyriend were first timers and it took them abit more time. It's all good. And 4 hrs on the water is a good bit. In the early evening we filled up at the market the drove up into the mountains and spent the night and a beautiful lake.
(sorry no pics from kayaking we used an old fashioned waterproof film camera)