South Island Pt. 3

 Farth north up the west coast we went... The picture to the left was taken in a place called Castle Hill. Narnia was filmed there!!!
We spent a few days in this area and checked out this cool cave that had a river running threw it and takes 40mins to walk through the whole thing. We still had lots of time till our ferry departure back to the north island so we decided to head to the end of the road on the west coast in a town called Karamea.




Living in the van and a tent for a month had been fun but when we got to Karamea we found this super cool hippie backpackers called Rongo's and splurged on getting a nice bed and room. This place was amazing. They had a huge garden where we could pick anything we wanted from it to use for meals and one of the nights we had a communal potluck! This places also is the home base for one of the radio stations and you can go dj live for anyone listening.

At Rongo's we made a few friends and brought two of them with us up north to Abel Tasman sense they were headed there too! Kathrine  from London, England and Katrien form Amsterdam, Netherlands hung out with us for almost a week! We had already been to Abel Tasman a few weeks earlier with my friend Alex but we loved the town of Takaka so much we thought it would be cool to come back. The day we got there, they were having a mardi gras celebration so we dressed up in plants cause that was all we could find lol. Near Takaka is Farawell Spit. We walked out on a lot of it but it goes for miles and its all sand dunes! Theres a photo bellow. The other photo is from the sacred Pupu springs, which I so happen to fall into.... while trying to take a photo...