Queen Charlotte road is fantastic, very windy with a lot of nice spots around. It can learn you that speed is for nothing as we did it in about 5 hours (and it is just about 150km). Didna��t have time to do the Quenn Charlotte walk, we hurried to Motueka, the gate to Abel Tasman national park.
Sea kayaking is really popular there and it was perfect idea to reserve two days for it. Paddled around nice beaches with gold sand, exactly as you can see them in all guide books. Seal and penguins swimming around you and just wishing to spot some dolphins as well.
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Farewell Spit looked at first just as extra long detour as you have to return the same way, but it was more than worth the time it took. The Takaka city on the way is probably some kind of bewitched place as we run out of fuel there as many other people around. At Abel Tasman we found the Farewell Spit nature Experience company with its chatty guide Chris, who explained to us the whole history, present and future of this place including all the wild life here including one of the famous birds nesting here, which was able to flight around 11 000km in one piece.
Murchison is sometimes called the white water capital and there are a lot of rivers around. Ita��s real pity that the water is very low and we were able to go just the Matakitaki river. It was quite fun with this flow and really good place to practise our paddling.
This is also the place with the longest swingbridge in New Zealand, which looks like the only attraction of the place, but there is more to see and do a�� take a walk around the peninsula, you the flying fox to get back or run the jet boats. We did all of it and enjoyed it a lot. Jet boats here arena��t just about speed, spins and water but also about the panoramas and talks about local history. We can definily recommend them for those who are scared.
Maruia Falls our own stop as well as another paddling place (a�?park and hucka�?). Just imagine the chance to jump the 11m high waterfall, which is really beautiful. Just be prepared a�� you need to be skilled in it and have all the safety equipment with you. Otherwise take a look, especially on sunny days.
Westcoast is here and Denniston our first place. The old coal city is quite isolated place with a few artefacts, but its history is incredible as well as the stories written on information panels there. Just imagine the school inspector who refuse to visit local school because he was to scared of the way there. The Jade city a�� Hokitika a�� was our next stop. A lot of shops with jade and a lot of beautiful jewellery from or with it. And there is also perfect fish & chips shop, which is our favourite food.
Glaciers everywhere, we chose Fox as our stop, because it is probably located closer to the carpark. We stared on it for a while and then saw the Fox river run out of it. The plan was done in a few seconds and after a while we have been on the water. Pretty cold and hard to read, as you usually dona��t see ice rocks in water, but was an incredible experience.
Wanaka and its Puzzle world is perfect stop on your way to Queenstown. If you want to sport a bit you can choose from a lot of walks around, for example the Mt. Roy we chose and did in about 2 hours (both way but we almost run the whole time).
Queenstown a�� our last stop for the moment a�� is really an adrenalin city. Shotover jet boats are really fast and the canynon nice and narrow, you cannot believe you can survive all those spins which almost kiss the rocks around.
The Ledge Sky Swing with its 20m swing was next and a bit scary experience with fantastic views on Queenstown. It is really good idea to take the cableway to top and enjoy it here. We also did the highest bungy in Australasia a�� the Newis Highwire Bungy is incredible with its 134m drop.
And as we have been here we also did the Newis Arc, new attraction, where you can choose how brave you are and swing on maximum 120m long wire.
And because life is not just about attractions we also found the free internet in local information place (where you can book the Bungy, Shotover Jet and other attractions as well) and huge burgers at Fergburgers restaurant. Another 2 000km in our Spaceship and the car is getting bigger and bigger. At the beginning we have a problem to fit in and nowdays we are almost able to take another person. Also some things are missing, but should be somewhere inside it is almost incredible that you can spend 15 minutes looking for something without success and after a while youa��ll get it on first look. The first rain we had here cleaned it a bit, which is shame as it lost its outdoor look a bit.
Heading further to south, want to see the famous Milford Sound, Mt Cook, Dunedin and head north again. A lot to see and do and we have just another month. And it looks like the annoying sand flies are gone. Hopefully.
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