This past Sunday (May 2nd), we decided to hike Abel Tasman national park. This park is located on the northern tip of the south island of NZ. After buying our water taxi tickets we boarded a boat on a trailer hooked up to a tractor. It wasn't high tide yet so a tractor had to take us through the shallow water into the ocean to start up the boat. They dropped us off on the beach and we had a 6 hour (20k) hike back. I thought that if we went at a fast pace, we could surely make the hike in around 4 hours, boy was I wrong. After 5.5 hours of walking fast, we finally got to the end of our trek. There were almost no bugs on the hike which was very unusual. The only wildlife we saw was a few birds. There are no squirrels, no spiders, no ants, no mosquitoes, none of the things which I am accustomed to seeing in the outdoors.
After spending the night in Westport, (cheapest, best meal we ate all trip, only $9.50 NZD for a pork roast with potatoes, apple sauce, carrots, peas, all smothered in gravy), we drove to Franz Josep, a glacier town along the western coast of the south island. On the drive we stopped to view the pancake rocks. these are rocks which formed in layers which scientists cannot explain.
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