Mt Vernon

Today it was time to say goodbye to Motueka and the beautiful Abel Tasman as it’s slowly time for me to travel south, I also want to see places I haven’t been to before. 😉

I was a long time unsure where I should go but was, in the end, deciding to go to Blenheim, as I had never been there before. I took with a woman from Greece, as she needed a ride and we had a nice trip together sharing our experiences with each other!
I dropped her off in Blenheim and went to Mt Vernon!
My plan was to walk up to the lookout and the over the loop track back to the Carpark. I may have missed, that this is a really steep hike up the hill. The first part was very easy and very nice but then the steep part started and I was asking myself, what the hell am I doing here?! 🙈😂
This was a real challenge to motivate myself to walk all the way up to the top, but it was sooo worth it!! The view was amazing over the hills, Blenheim and to the ocean! 😍
I was up there for around 40 minutes, as I a conversation with a woman from France who was tried to get work here as a teacher and told me, that it is so hard to get the paper and so on to get the working visa, even though she had found a job already, it’s was kind of impossible.

As she is going home soon but wants to come back in February with her son to travel I could give her a lot of tips for that and we also walked all the way back to the Carpark together in the end!

Being back by the Carpark I had to find a campground for the night.
I could not choose better! I went to Ward and found a lovely small campground, not busy at all and cheap as well! I really liked it here!

I spend the evening with a couple from Germany talking about everything and went to bed way too late again 🙈😂Read more