Sea Kayaking in Abel Tasman

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Drove through Motueka to Marahau, arrived in Abel Tasman National Park at around 3.00ish. Beautiful scenery - stayed at a place called The Barn, the nearest accomodation to the park itself.

Got a water taxi up to Anchorage Point and walked along the coastal track for around 4 hours back to the hostel - through tropical bush, stopping off at the occassional deserted sandy beach.

The water taxis are pretty unusual - you get onto the boat on dry land - they are then hauled out across the beach to the sea by a tractor!

Second day decided to go Sea Kayaking and ended up sailing as well!!! After about an hour of pretty rough sea kayaking, our guide got us to form a raft by lining up together (and handing on to the next kayak) and then hoisted a sail - worked quite efficiently - reckon at points we were doing 4/5 knots!! Kayaked the rest of the way back to the beach we left from. Great day out - if a little tiring on the arms!

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Photos

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Debs kayaking on dry land...well, the sea was very rough that afternoon.

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To get out the Park - the water taxi had to be dragged across the beach (in low tide) by a tractor.

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The view after the initial climb at the start of our walk.