Christmas on the Road 2018

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...

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...