oooo Golden Bay
creating our own path through chetwood forest (takaka hill)
windy fun at wharariki beach
Golden Bay was one of my favorite spots on the south island. We started our day exploring Takaka. We found a spot down a gravely path where apparently a small part of the first lord of the rings movie was filmed. It was the part where Aragorn leads the hobbits into Chetwood forest after Bree. We ran around there for awhile and made our own paths through the woods. Poor Jenny and leah both had a fun time falling into some gorse bushes, but we all came out alright eventually (ps. thank you mrs Kolb for the guide book, it helped us find so many cool spots!!).
After that we made our way into town where we wandered around in some shops and then drove awhile to get to Wharaiki Beach where the lady at the info center said there were playful baby seals. The hike out to the beach was beautiful. It went across a farm with lots of sheep and rolling green hills. Then the wind picked up. We almost got blown off the hills and then when we finally made it to the beach we were being sand blasted. For some reason we thought it would be a good idea to eat lunch on top of the tallest sand dune. We ate crunchy pb&js and then hightailed it back to the car. It was beautiful tho.
After that we made for the west coast and began to head south. While trying to find a spot to pull over we saw quite a few night critters. We even saw a kiwi bird crossing the road!!! It was really exciting! That night we also saw a rabbit and a hedgehog cross the road while we made our way through what we thought was the creepiest town ever, Westport. It just had that creepy small town with mullets kinda aura. Anyways, we waited to pull off till there was a good buffer zone of a few kms between us and westport.
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