The last drops from last night’s downpour were fading away when we woke and by the time we stepped outside, the clouds had begun to break up and lift. We were journeying to towards the town of Wanaka, some few hundred kilometres away to the south east. The journey took us past the famous glaciers… Read more

Up and out of camp today before too many murderous Sandflies attacked our two intrepid surf explorers! We had a slight run of bad luck to start us off. Less said the better really, but let’s just say that the brown water from the ‘drinking tap’ can be replaced, the sandfly bites will heal, but… Read more

Sandflies were literally battering at the windows of the van this morning. With a low mist on the hills and a little light drizzle outside there was no rush to get up. Except to get out and away to the west coast! We drove a long and winding road through the damp forested mountains before… Read more

We’ve said our goodbyes to Golden Bay and the hippy town of Takaka and headed east! Via some climbing and afternoon tea with the family of my Grandad’s war time buddy! But before all that we spent an hour in the town of Takaka. It was Saturday market this morning, which had a very ‘alternative… Read more

What a fantastic day! Sea kayaking around the world famous (to sea kayakers anyway) Abel Tasman National Park coastline.  As you can see from the pics, there was a bit of cloud cover today. Although that wasn’t great for the photos, it did mean that it was a perfectly pleasant temperature for kayaking and we… Read more

Hoorah! I’m back on par! And with the fantastic excuse to eat and drink as much as possible to build myself back up! Time to get back on the rock and start being awesome again!  We went straight out to the climbing area of Paynes Ford today. It’s not the biggest cliff in the world,… Read more