Hokitika to Charleston

I think I've mustered the energy to make another posting. So here we go. From Trace and Phil's place in Hokitika we started our two and half week road trip around the northern part of the south island.

Six of us piled into their Nissan Vanette (yes, it is as small as the name implies) plus adult and child toys, camping gear and food. It was tight, but somehow there was always room.

We spent a day paddling down a nice canal from Lake Mahinapua to Hokitika

Sunset out the back of Trace and Phil's

I paddle once every 10 years or so

Where's Waldo? Phil and Poppy on our hike to a high point

Band album cover

Somewhere below the vegetation is a trail

Punakaiki

Wild ocean here, you can see people on the horizon for scale

The Vanette, disembowled

Flax

Tobin and Ann-Marie on the hike to Cape Foulwind