Abel Tasman

We stayed in Abel Tasman for 2 nights as we arrived too late the first day to do or see any of the national park. We were allocated our own, private hut (basically a shed) because we were a couple and couples like to get technical (whatever that means) according to our driver Ali Barbar.
Ali was an interesting character, he has a theme tune for his bus. His theme tune is Hakuna Matata and the bear necessities because all travellers should have no worries and only be carrying the bare necessities.

The Abel Tasman is stunning! We went on a 3hr hike to Appletree bay which was lovely, except I've left the Mossies behind and found the sandflies. Well, they love me! My socks must have slipped down from my ankle leaving a small slither of skin which had no insect repellent on. I have a lovely ring of red bites around my ankle now. I've since bought some new repellent, aptly named OFF! which I call bugger off or when the sandflies are really doing my head in, I call feck off!
Its really difficult to explain the Abel Tasman because for the most part we were walking through rainforest, which was a bit chilly, but we got too warm to wear a jumper. Alan was on some kind of power hike for most of it and I did struggle to keep up, not that I'm unfit or anything. Appletree bay was beautiful, the scenery was amazing, very picture postcard like.

I wish I could tell you we did alot in the afternoon after our hike, but we went for a bit of a kip, in our shed. All this fresh, clean air and hiking is very tiring. If we're not snoozing on the bus then we're off having an afternoon kip to recharge our batteries.