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Abel Tasman National Park On Friday, we decided to get out and see a bit of the local area. This did raise a lot of protest from all three of the children, but in the end we were moving and before long had entered Abel Tasman National Park. We used this opportunity to take a half hour trek to a lookout point, through some beautiful native forest. The bird song was phenomenal. Looking towards Tata Beach from Lookout Rock Logan and David standing on Lookout Rock Logan and Eliza sitting atop Lookout Rock We returned to the coast for lunch, and then began trekking towards Taupo Pa around the sandy and rocky coastline. Eliza decided not to continue, so Jane stayed with her while the boys kept walking to the small peninsula. I was interested to see the change in sand quality between each of the bays. Some of the bays were full of granite and coarse granite sands, and others had finer quartz sands. The walk was a lot of fun, with only a few small injuries, eh Logan?. L...
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Abel Tasman National Park

On the 27th of December we got up at 6:30 in the morning and played some games that Santa gave us for Christmas.  Then we got dressed and had sausages for breakfast. Soon after, we boarded the bus to Kaiteriteri so we could board the boat. Then we went  on the boat called the Crusader, to see the whole park. We saw cool places like split Apple Rock and saw a Seal Colony on Adele Island. 2 hours later we got off the Crusader and explored the wonderful place called Medlands Beach. The cruise to the top of the park showed beautiful sandy beach after beautiful sandy beach and we wanted to get off at each stop and explore each part. At least half the family was ready to come back and do the full multi day walk some time. We got off the cruise at Medlands Beach and walked our way to Anchorage Bay. Fortunately, while on the boat, the kids befriended some other girls, aged 8 and 11 who's family were on the same walking adventure. We teamed up and each group encourag...
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Christmas at Motueka

For the fist time we were having Christmas in the south island!! All of us kids couldn't believe it and we woke up a 5:00 because we were so exited. We opened our presents and we all got chocolate, a calendar, and a game to play, we also did secret Santa. We had breakfast which was very yummy. It was pancakes with salmon, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. Our food table was very pretty with red tinsel and Jane did a stunning job with the food(thank you!!) After one of the greatest breakfasts in the world, we played with our cool toys and games. I watched Thor Ragnarok(thanks dad) and Jonty played with his new Zuru gun. Then Santa came in a Ute and chucked lollies at us, I think I had a sugar rush that day. We had a lot of fun but during those fun times, there was a problem with the oven and we ended up having a delicious roast pork for dunch. We had a delicious dessert which was a pavlova with ambrosia. Christmas day was great and we couldn't wait for tomorrow so we could ...
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From the top of the South

We checked into Pohara Beach Top 10 holiday Park on Wednesday. This place is right on the beach - a beautifully long stretch of white sand. It is obviously the Christmas holiday spot for many regulars with huge tents, trailers, boats and lots of Christmas lights. We have lights on our tent, but they look pitifully small in comparison. The advent calendar progress is appalling. The last bit of work was done on the ferry, all those days ago. We struggle to know what day of the week it is, let alone the date. But I can report that it is Friday, 21st, and if you're still at work, you've probably had the big end of work Christmas thing today. They did here with the staff at the campground. We have had some fun, some rain, some sunshine, some adventures. I can report that the Fresh Choice supermarket in Takaka is well stocked and quite great. This is a great relief as I was a little worried how to feed everyone on the required strict gf diet. Yesterday we went to find some a...
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We in the South Island, we are, we are

After the fun times shared at Whanganui, we embarked on the next stage of our journey, Wellington. We had too get to the Blue Bridge Ferry  before it left at 2:30pm. We ended up getting to the ferry when we needed too and we boarded the humongous blue and white ferry soon after. We drove our car onto the boat and I was surprised on how big the vessel was. Once we parked the car, we got out and tried to find a seat. About an hour later(only ten minutes) we finally found a seat(without a table; which was annoying because we had brought a lot of food.) The seats were very comfortable and we enjoyed two very cool movies; the first was, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation; a comedy, and then Karate Kid; an action movie (sadly we didn't get to finish it!!) Arriving in Picton Just about to get back in the car, to drive into Picton. What to do, what to do Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre Knights of the Sky It was Logan's recommendation to go to this na...
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