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Left Picton feeling very sleepy and started on the way to Nelson stopping off at a winery on the way. Never have 2 words provoked such joy in Emjo, and Atle/Janni than these.... FREE WINE. Lordy did they enjoy themselves! Good thing that the measures were small but they had fun anyway!
Anywho, carried on to Nelson and once again Janni and Atle begged to be in a room with us again and we adopted a KateFish aswell...which was nice. The hostel was kind of hotel like and very nice! Glad it wasnt a dump for our 4 night stay!
We spent time just chilling out and seeing the sights....didnt take too long as well are lazy and the place lives in a valley! Hills everywhere! Too much like hard work! We quickly established ourselves as regulars in the restaurant and ate them out of potato wedges daily!
Many a game was played and our knowledge of Nowegian card games was established but we decided that we should probably get off our bums and see some of the country...including the natiional park, Abel Tasman which everyone raves about!
So it was agreed, we booked ourselves on a sailing and hiking tour around and in the Abel Tasman. It was a lot of fun, we all lay on the bouncy netting bit of the catamaran boat we were one and basically lounged about in the sun for the whole sailing trip! We got lunch and then the Faux Fishy Family (the trip was booked under Kates surname fish so it was decided that we were the FFF forever!...yes ok we are strange but happy so shhhh!)
Anyway, despite the skipper of the boat sarcastically wishing me luck in the hike (cheeky b*****!) it was a very nice stroll through beautiful woody (slightly hilly) scenery and we made it back in time for the bus - woohoo!! Slight mishap during my impression of Baby from Dirty Dancing on a bridge led to Em rooting through plants looking for my sunglasses but tragedy...(and injury) was avoided have no fear.
I have one word of advice for any Abel Tasman visitors....DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ATTEMPT TO USE THE TOILETS ON THE TRAIL!! YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!...You want more explanation?? Really?! Ok...well we had been hiking for about 3 and a half hours and the call of nature was growing ever louder...so putting Atle's stories of having wasps fly up between his legs when he last used an eco toilet i decided to brave the ones on the trail...OH MY GOD. First of all it was funny becasue it was just like a shed in the middle of the woods...but when i went in there were dead flies around the seat...
Now normally...for a normal person this would be the perfect opportunity to do a runner...however, Em and I have never been accused of being normal and decided to lift the lid....
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD you have NEVER heard anything like it...as soon as the lid moved you heard what sounded like a lawn mower starting right next to your ear!! A scream and a run later, we collected ourselves, calmed our hearbeats and deduced that perhaps there were more flies/wasps/bees/buzzy things down the toilet than we had anticipated!! My what powers of deduction LEm have!!!
All in all the national park was gorgeous ... the toilet facilities were not! TeenTong you would never pee again!!
On that happy note...traaaa!!! xxx
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