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Te Pukatea Bay

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    • Day 89

      A perfect day in NZL - Abel Tasman NP

      September 19, 2019 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

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      Today we had the perfect day! We got up by a decent time, drove to the Abel Tasman Center, had breakfast and then explored the national park.
      Of course this doesn't sound that perfect yet, but watch out!
      We learned at the Visitor Center that the best (only) hike you can go for during the day is a nice 12.7 km long hike and then take a water taxi the other way (either there or back). Since the way to the park by taxi offers two view points more (one of them sea seals) than the water trip back, we of course decided to take the boat to the park and walk the way back.
      And it gets even better!
      On the way into the park we saw not only the "Split Apple Rock" (a very cool naturally shaped rock in the sea 🍎) and the promised Fur Seals! No, we also saw Blue Penguins 🐧, birds and Dusk Dolphins 🐬! Yes, dolphins!
      Oh my God our hearts were filled with so much happiness and joy! Not just because the dolphins are very rare here in the area. It looked so harmoniously how the animals glided through the water! 😍 and at the Fur Seals we also saw a small 9 months old young one! Our day was already perfect. 🥰 That is how these animals should live and not in any cages!
      Smiling from one ear to the other the next 2 hours an 55 minutes felt like nothing😂. Well, 12.7 km is a “nice” hike. The view along the coast of Abel Tasman was soooo beautiful! A really great path with lonely beaches and pure nature!

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      Heute hatten wir den perfekten Tag!
      Wir sind gemütlich aufgestanden, sind zum Abel Tasman Center gefahren, haben gefrühstückt und haben dann den Nationalpark erkundet.
      Natürlich klingt das so jetzt noch nicht so Mega Hammer toll, aber passt auf!
      Wir haben im Visitor Center erfahren, dass der beste (einzige) Hike, den man tagsüber machen kann, schöne 12.7 km lang ist und man eine Strecke (entweder hin oder zurück) mit dem Wasser Taxi fährt. Da der Hinweg mit dem Taxi an zwei Aussichtspunkten (einer davon Seerobben) mehr hält, als die Wasserfahrt zurück, entschieden wir uns natürlich für den Hinweg mit dem Boot und zurück wird gelaufen.
      Und es kommt noch besser!
      Wir sahen auf dem Weg in den Park hinein nicht nur den „Split Apple Rock“ (ein natürlich sehr cool geformter Stein im Meer 🍎) und die versprochenen Fur Seals! Nein, wir sahen auch noch Pinguine 🐧, Vögel und Dusk Delphine 🐬! Jaaaa Delphine!!
      Oh mein Gott unser Herz war mit so viel Glück und Freude erfüllt, denn die Delphine sind sehr selten dort in der Gegend. So harmonisch sah es aus wie die Tiere durchs Wasser glitten! 😍 und bei den Fur Seals haben wir auch noch ein kleines 9 Monate altes Junges gesehen! Unser Tag war schon perfekt. 🥰 So sollen diese Tiere leben und nicht in irgendwelchen Käfigen!
      Lächelnd von einem Ohr bis zum anderen liefen sich die nächsten 2 stunden 55 Minuten wieder wie am Schnürchen😂. Ja 12,7 km ist schon eine nette Strecke. Die Aussicht an der Küste des Abel Tasman entlang war soooo wunderschön! Ein richtig toller Weg mit einsamen Stränden und purer Natur!
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    • Day 13

      Abel Tasman National Park

      March 12, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C

      There are a lot of firsts on this holiday and today was the day of my first proper hike on the Abel Tasman Coastal Track.

      A watertaxi brought me to Anchorage where I started my hike. I first walked around Pitt Head and to Te Pukatea Bay which is a 1 hour loop back to Anchorage.

      Then I started my way back to Marahau along the coastline of the park. The track section is 13 km long and took me 4 hours to complete. The first part is very steep and hilly but after 45 mins the track levels out and is very nice to walk.

      The amazing thing is that you're mostly walking in the forest with the birds singing like mad to cheer you on. And then you come to places where you can see through the lush green vegetation to see glimpses of little bays and beaches and the turquoise waters underneath you and you can hear the ocean lapping up against the rocks.

      The beaches are easy to reach and are great for little breaks.
      I had my lunch in Apple Tree Bay and enjoyed sitting on the warm sand and dipping my - at that point - slightly sore feet into the water.

      Tomorrow is my first time kayaking. We'll see how that goes, but I was promised see lions... 😆
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