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Abel Tasman —— One of the Great Walk in NZ

Since I stayed in Motueka for that long, it’s time to share with you the most attractive location——Abel Tasman National Park

I am that kind person who like natural place so much, And this make my main purpose to NZ is to experience the multi-days trekking. The journey that overnight in mountain cottage, the journey to the lost world. However, unluckily it’s winter and this stopped me from many track.

So, let me introduce you the only track I went, Abel Tasman. Abel Tasman is one of the seven great walks in NZ, which famous with kayak and emerald ocean. It’s also the easiest great walk among the seven.

The only point you have to take note is the tide time. Because there are some tracks will be filled by water during high tide. It’s better to plan earlier with the tide time if you don’t want to stuck or extra journey.

There are 3 ways to complete this track: walk, kayak and ride.

  • Walk : Enjoy the scene across the ocean, never miss out every details of the ocean. But it’ll get boring after a long walk.
  • Kayak : Rent a kayak and explore the ocean, kayak under the bridge, kayak with the seal…
  • Ride : Since the track is one way route, by riding water taxi, you can easily skipped all the track and return to the departure point. Most of the people will choose 2 ways for this track.

For this time, we chose to walk there and ride back. And thanks for our host for renting her village over the beach!

Lastly, let enjoy the journey from the picture!

Wild Holiday: Ride to the Mountain~

有了脚车真的好,Good to have a bike

Since I got another “Holiday” from Talley’s again…
So I have to think again to spend my holiday~
Although most of the places around motueka were out of cycle distance…
I still never give up travel around Motueka! Finally I have the trip : cycle up to Takaka Hill

 Takaka Hill is on the north of Motueka, and the only way to Golden Bay…
The top of the hill contain a lot of marble rock and lime stone…
Because of this, there was a 25km long cave system in this mountain area…
The road pass by the hill is up to 700m above sea level…
And about 25km per trip for up and down the hill~

It seem impossible for a bicycle to climb up the hill… Moreover I just have an old road bike without back break! I really thanks God for this safe trip…

Time to depart~

Finally, I reached the foot of Takaka hill, the beginning of the 25km climbing

上呀!Up Up!

To be honest, I walked about 70% instead of cycle all along the road… Without the beautiful scene, I think I had gave up early…

不知不觉就爬了好高,It's already so high~

Finally saw some human building after a long long way…

石灰厂,代表要到Takaka山顶咯!Lime Factory, mean almost to the Takaka Hill top!Kairuru Farm Stay

Not much longer, I saw the way to first station!

还有300米!300m more!

Hawkes Lookout have a stunning view with short distance of walkway

 

I had my lunch at Hawkes Lookout and re-plan my journey…
My first plan was reach the summit about 1pm and took another 3 hours for the hill walk~ Now I just finished 2/3 in 1pm…
Lastly, I decided went to the Ngarua Cave which not far away~

After recharge, I continue the climbing to Ngarua Cave~

800米!800m!400米!400m!

Ngarua Cave is a Historical and Geological interesting place…
Cost : 15 NZD/person

我抵达咯,I reached

It located 600m above sea level… From here, the Tasman bay was in the view…

这儿是海拔600米,前面就是Tasman Bay咯,Here is 600m above sea level and under the hill is Tasman Bay

Inside the cave have the bone of Moa (An extinct big bird which only in NZ),
and special cave system Beside that, one of the scene from《The Hobbit》 was taken from here

Because of these, it had been develop into a place for visit.. and equipped with a small coffee house which provide stunning view 山顶上的小咖啡店,Lovely coffee hourse around the cave

Because I went there during work day, I have my personal Tour Guide, Evelyn Who provide a really detail information about the cave~

谢谢我的专属导游,Thanks for my personal cave guide : Evelyn

Let’s the photo tell the story:

 

 It’s already 4pm after I visited the cave… It’s impossible for me to reach the summit because it took time to went down hill too… Time to go Home~ 下山咯~ Time to go Home~ 太阳下山咯,我也下山咯~ Going down hill~美丽的山,Beautiful Mountainmomomomomo... 有一点失败的全景,A  liitle failure panaromic shot~  Lastly, I used 4 hours for uphill and 40 minutes for down hill… That’s the power of Gravitation Field!
And I used up my 3 off days : 1 day collect information, 1 day action, 1 day recover

It’s hard to travel without car, but the real travel was in my heart… Without a heart, no where to reach! *of course there were problem with stamina and distance, Like me~

Legendary City: Motueka

Motueka镇的入口,Entrance of Motueka City
Like I said before, I had been cheated to Motueka…
Since I had to stay here for quite a long time…
Have to spent some time to discover the beauty of this town~

Motueka的博物馆,Motueka Museum...
From the Museum:
Motueka had been a main city in New Zealand before…
Because there were huge agricultures work such as Kiwi, Apple, Mandarin, Grape~
And there was a port over this town…
Mean there were trading and developing in this town during old time~

But now It just a little small town if compared to other cities…
Though small, It have all the things to live on:

  1. Super Market

    There were Countdown and New World supermarket over here~
    Count DownNew World
    The Ware House, a really complete store!
    The Ware House
    A little Asian Shop provide hometown memories…
    亚洲超市,Asian Shop
    There was no worry for buying stuff in this town~

  2. Second Hand Shop

    For me, second hand shop was the best place for me to “reload”
    And there were 4 second hand shop over this town!
    再循环店,Reuse Shop红十字二手店,Motueka Red Cross shop
    救世军二手店,Salvation Army Family StoreThe Hospice Shop Second Hand Shop,二手店

  3. Fast Food

    Lazy to cook? There was a KFC and McDonald provide cheap fast food~
    And there was Indian Food, Malaysian Food, Fish and Chips…
    All of them were not too expensive…
    KFCMcDonald

  4. Sunday Market

    Motuke,周日市场,Sunday Market 小时候的回忆:冰淇凌车,Kid's dream car : Ice Cream Car
    The price over south island was really higher…
    But during Sunday, there was a Sunday Market selling super cheap, super large, super fresh vegetables and fruits~

  5. Little Shop

    If you can’t wait for Sunday, there were some little shop over the street…
    The fruit/vegetable sold in these shops was cheap and fresh!
    But the problem was they located far away from each other, and sometimes out of stock~
    These were some shops I discovered…
    梨子自助摊,Pears Self-service Shop奇异果和红葱,KiwiFruit & Red Onion
    各种果类,More Fruit最特别的自助摊,The most special shop

  6. Public Service

    There was a Library which provide you free internet~
    The i-site over here provide free transport and accommodation booking for 2 national park:
    Abel Tasman and Kahurangi National Park…

    Bored? There was a Cinema with 3D too~
    这是电影院哦!The Cenima!我的宝贝,My Precious~

  7. Some Parks

    Since there was a port, there was a beach…
    And they develop a really good walkway for the beach~
    海边的路径,Beach Walkway~
    During free day, I can take a relax walk over the beach


    Another Special for this town: Huge Tide Different!
    So tide table is important for Abel Tasman Great Walk…
    涨潮,Hoigh Tide退潮,Low Tide
    潮汐差!Huge Tide Different!

  8. Work

    The huge area of orchard provide works from Feb to Aug…
    Beside there was a Talley’s Factory which provide work in mussel and fish department all over the year…
    During Hoki Season (Winter), Talley’s also provide work for WHVer
    So there were many WHVer in this little town…

Beside, Many cyclist around here because the road was kinda flat~
Since I don’t have a car, I bought my little bicycle do some “travel” with me~
我买了!I bought it!

Hope I can enjoy the time I stay here and discover more beauty of this town~