Quad biking Able Tasman National Park First thing - out to "Happy Valley Adventures" for some quad biking. As it happened we were the only ones booked in for the morning run, so it was just us and the guide - so it made for very personalized service. The weather was perfect, had poured with rain the day before - however today was clear - but there was still heaps of puddles and mud on the tracks. After passing on the trial track - we were ...

Drive to Nelson World of Wearable Art (WOW) Another day on the road. The couple who run the Sails motel continued their very friendly service, running out in the rain to give us a couple of good coffee shops we could stop at on the way and fare welling us. The drive to Nelson proved interesting… stack behind a truck for the first 100km, it seems many of the truck drivers refuse to use the slow vehicle sections of road, and given the roads are all...