Baron von Munchausen (or whatever)

After an amazing 2 nights at Brad and Eve's, we started heading north towards Nelson and Abel Tasman national park. We stopped for lunch at some watherfall thingie. Apparently mofos drive their kyaks off this.



Not sure what this silly little bird is.
After driving for 3 and a half hours, we drove strat past this place and Shannon said we should turn left towards some national park. After 20 minutes of driving down a gravel road we turned around and headed back. The American dide was nice and so was the camping. Olivia the geologist collected so granite and schistist stuff and played in the rocky river.


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  1. evenbrad3 December 2017 at 09:06

    Woohoo! You’re on your way. We had such a fun and amazing couple of days with you guys. Thank you so much for putting us on your itinerary! Can’t wait to see you again in a month but there are lots of adventures to be had before then. The birds you saw were wekas. They’re only found in New Zealand! Thanks for sharing your holiday!

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