Not sure where to begin! We are currently hostelling in Franz Josef Glacier area, which is home to the reknown Franz Josef Glacier and ____ Fox Glaciers, which are significant for being the only glaciers which reside within waters surrounding tropical rainforests. We will be doing 2 hikes tomorrow to document these natural wonders, so please stay tuned for photographs!!
Since my last blog, we kayaked the Abel Tasman for 2 days (about 3 hours/day) with an overnight camping excursion at Anchorage Bay. Prior to this trip, I had always had romantic fantasies about kayaking along some remote coast. Most of my fantasies were dashed within the first 10 minutes of our trip, it is HARD work and the majority of my energy was focused on getting to the final destination rather than enjoying the scenery. With Jason as the row master, we searched high and low for tricks that would keep us motivated to keep paddling, and by the final hour of the last day, we were PLENTY ready for terra firma.
Last night we spend in Westport, a town that has little significance to me except that we did out laundry (finally), got hot showers, and acquired 10-20 more mosquito bites. Today we drove down along the scenic and beautiful SH6, with kms and kms of rocky shoreline, to our current location. We stopped to take a small hike to the Punkaiki pancake rocks (they only look like pancakes:) ) and got more mosquito bites and some gorgeous picutres.
Hopefully Jason will show me how to update some pics onto this blog, until next time...
Jennifer
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