March 2018
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Mar 11 Hokitika
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Hokitika Sunday: Carnegie building and museum, Hokitika Gorge. Hokitika: 7 a.m. kaleidoscope. Endless series of small waves froth onto the black sand under the rocky beach. A few campers … maybe hung-over Wildfoods Festival revelers … are sealed inside… Continue reading
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Mar 10 Westport to Hokitika
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Drive to Hokitika for Wildfoods Festival and Pancake Rocks along the way. We try to take care of administrative matters before we leave the Archer House in Westport but its caretakers, Jackie and Charlie, who are about to tour Scotland… Continue reading
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Mar 9 Westport / Karamea
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Tramping in Karamea with hitchhikers. David wakes and runs by 7 on a narrow path along the wide Buller River, which looks a little like the flat parts of the Shenandoah River near Great Meadows, Virginia. Weka scuttle in the… Continue reading
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Mar 8 Westport
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Sadly, we leave Robin and Bernice’s lovely home on Francis Street in Blenheim, but we motor easily under sunny skies — SUNNY SKIES!!! — to Villa Maria’s main Marlborough vineyard for some a.m. tasting of their single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc… Continue reading
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Mar 7 Havelock
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Pelorus Sound mailboat run and green mussels in Havelock. Into the car by 9:10 and drove in driving rain to Havelock, the green mussel capital of New Zealand and, perhaps, the world. A small town on a bend in the… Continue reading
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Mar 6 Blenheim
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David downs coffee with Roberta at 6:15 a.m. and hits the road with her and John, depositing them at the Picton ferry, bound for a flight from Wellington to southern adventures, and spins the car back into the Blenheim apartment… Continue reading
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Mar 5 Blenheim (Marlborough)
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Lunch at Wither Hills Winery and visit to Aviation Heritage Museum. David gets up and is running south by 7 a.m., toward two mountaintops about a mile away. He runs on [name to come], a typical residential street in Blenheim:… Continue reading
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Mar 4 Nelson to Blenheim
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Travel from Nelson to Blenheim visiting two Marlborough wineries (Alan Scott and Cloudy Bay) on the way and meeting Robin and Bernice Sutherland. Cynthia is on a mission to get a new iPhone at one of three stores while John… Continue reading
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Mar 3 Abel Tasman to Nelson
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Last day of Abel Tasman tramp. Kayaking around Adele Island, return to Nelson for Indian dinner with David and Helen from Auckland. We woke up for a 7:15 breakfast, packed the essentials that lay on the racks out back, the… Continue reading
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Mar 2 Abel Tasman
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Lazy morning and mid-day hike to Cleopatras Pool. Today is uniformly grey with a steady light drizzle in the morning. David takes an early morning run back in the direction from which we kayaked yesterday, passing in front of a… Continue reading
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Mar 1 Abel Tasman
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Early morning start. Hike one leg, kayak two legs and end at Torrent Bay. New lodgings. Cynthia’s favorite day. Although the paths are soft and full of beautiful vegetation, the hikes start to feel like a treadmill. Most are in… Continue reading
Two Tramps 