Thursday, 24 January 2008

Vi hyr bil/Car renting

Sa hyrde vi da bil.... Alltid harligt att ha friheten att aka vart man vill utan att kopa en tur. Vi akte norrut, mot Nelson. Malen var Abel Tasman, en nationalpark med underbara strander (bla en av varldens topp 5 strander!).
Time for car renting! Always nice to be able to go wherever you feel like going. We went north, towards Nelson. The goal was to get to Abel Tasman, a national park with beautiful beaches (one of the top five in the world).
Landskapet andrades standigt, men det var alltid vackert!
The landscape changed all the time, but it was always beautiful!
Lite planering langs med farden. Har at vi oss valdigt matta med hemlagad lasagne! We did some planing along the road. At this restaurant we ate such a great home made lasagna!

Nar vi kom till Nelson gick vi ut for nagra drinkar for forsta gangen pa VALDIGT lange! Kul, kul!When we got to Nelson, we went out for some drinks! We hadn't been out for a VERY long time! It was a fun night!

Simma med delfiner/Dolphine swim


Dagen efter avslutad vandring var det dags att hoppa i vattnet, i det iskalla vattnet! Akaroas lage gor att vattnet ska vara nagot varmare.... men Nya Zeeland ligger skrammande nara sydpolen.... kallt i havet - JA, det klart! Vi fick se de utrotningshotade Hector delfinerna! Det finns bara ca 7000 kvar i hela varlden! Denna dag var de inte pa sitt basta humor, de brukar tydligen komma 20, 30-talet at gangen, och de ar nyfikna och simmar och hoppar runt. Men jag fick i alla fall simma nagra meter ifran dem och jag dok ner under vattnet och fick se en pa en armlangds avstand! Sa vackra!

The day after the tramping was over, we jumped in to the freezing water outside Akaroa, and swam with the Hector dolphines. There are only 7000 of these left in the world. We were SO cold! New Zealand is not far from the south pole, thank you, we notised that! BRRRRRR!!!!
This day there were not as many dolphines around as normally, but I got to see one of them very up close! I could have touched it! That made my day!

Visst ar vi snygga...! ;)

We are soooo good looking in this outfit.....! ;)