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The Labyrinth

After waking up and leaving the pub car-park that we camped in for the night we went for a walk in Takaka called ‘The Labyrinth’ with amazing rock formations that you walk around and around in getting lost a couple of times and with some tight squeezes to fit through. Then, with Chris...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 13, 2012 from Takaka, New Zealand
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A stunningly beautiful beach and a cabaret...

We went to Takaka and checked out the DoC info to find out the best stuff to do before going to ‘Pupu springs’, the largest in Australasia and one of the clearest in the world. The water was amazingly clear and if only you were allowed to swim in it, but in fact you can’t even touch...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 12, 2012 from Wharariki Beach, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Walk through The Cobb Valley

We woke to a partially cloudy morning, but along the valley seemed not too bad, so after a yummy trout brekkie we decided to head off to walk the valley, well at least some of the way. It was really pretty and we made a pretty good pace, all in all walking around 12 kms in about 4.5...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 11, 2012 from Cobb Valley, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Cool caves and 2 fishies

The weather was a little gloomy but we headed off towards Golden Bay regardless. As we climbed up a massive hill we met the clouds and it got very grim so we decided to pull in and have a coffee at a caves attraction. It actually looked a pretty nice cave trip so we decided to give it a go. ...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 10, 2012 from Takaka, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Thru the drive-thru

We headed North to Motueko stopping for a nice coffee enroute. The café owner told us that there was a cheap local campsite by the sea pool, however upon checking it we saw that it was only for self-contained vehicles. We had some breakfast there and then headed to the cheapest paid campsite...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 9, 2012 from Motueka, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Peninsula Walk

We headed to St Arnaud today, camped out in a café and caught up on the blog. We had a delicious lunch then went to the lake for a walk, only to find Charly only had one trainer. We drove back 25kms to last night’s campsite, to luckily find it sitting on the grass. Back on track...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 8, 2012 from Saint Arnaud, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

A nice shower...

Got up and left the campsite and headed straight for a much-needed shower at a campsite down the road in Seddon which they kindly let us use for $3pp. Then we headed North for a while into Blenheim and then headed west and stayed camped up for the afternoon and night especially enjoying Chris’...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 7, 2012 from Blenheim, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

A load of seals

We left our campsite this morning and headed south for a while to Kaikoura as we had read that you could go on a whale watching tour which you could see, well whales obviously, as well as dolphins and other animals as well. On the way we stopped briefly at a lookout point from where we saw...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 6, 2012 from Kaikoura, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Molesworth Station

We headed off up the gravel road across the Molesworth Station, taking in the bumps and amazing views before coming to the further DoC campsite. It was quite early so we stopped for lunch then headed on, after being advised of a free camp just outside of the station. It was a long,...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 5, 2012 from Molesworth, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

In the back country

Once again, sick of the sandflies we headed off to cross the Southern Alps at the Lewis Pass, which was a really nice drive. We ended up in Hanmer Springs which was ultra-busy so after a refuel and a visit to the Doc Office we chose to take an adventurous route through Molesworth Station –...

permalink written by  chrischarly on February 4, 2012 from Hanmer Springs, New Zealand
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