Abel Tasman National Park - 21.12.-22.12.

On the 21st of December i left Nelson and went back on the Stray bus to the Abel Tasman National Park. The bus arrived in Nelson 3 hours too late, which is why we arrived in the National Park in the late evening at around 9 pm. At this evening i went for a small walk to the beach inside the National Park which was only about 15 minutes away to walk from our hostel. As you can see on second picture at this evening there was a pretty low tide... with a high tide all this would be under water...

Abel Tasman National Park

beach at Abel Tasman National Park with low tide

On the second day at Abel Tasman National Park i went on a Kayaking trip along the coast of the national Park, there we stopped at a pretty lonely beach, for swimming and a small picnic. I forgot to bring my camera to the boat trip ... ( well i didnt really forget it... i was more worried that i would lose it) ...
so fotos will follow later.


In the evening of my last day at Abel Tasman National Park i went to a burger restaurant near the National Park in the middle of nowhere. They had quite good burgers, also a vegetarian one (which i chose).

burger restaurant at Abel Tasman National Park

After our stay at Abel Tasman National Park on the 23rd of December we went on to the small village Black Ball. On our way we crossed stopped at some points along the west coast of the south island.
One of these places was the home of a seal colony :)
I think there were quite a lot of them, but they were pretty hard to see, because their fur had almost the same color like the rocks they were sitting on, so it was quite hard to spot them. Nevertheless i could take some fotos, and it is easier to see them on the photos :).

home of the seal colony

seal colony

Our second stop on the way to Black ball was a small National Park. The special thing about this park is,
that all the rocks at this area look like pancakes, which is why they look are obviously called the "pancake rocks".

pancake rocks