Abel Tasman Weekend

I'm a bit behind with posting so I'll do a few individual posts.

Two weekends ago Elin and I went kayaking in the Abel Tasman. One of the guys here in town lent us his double hypernova.

I headed out for a ride first thing in the morning. It was a bit of a miserable ride as the first half was uphill into a light headwind. Second half was a bit more fun though. Put it in the big ring and ground it out on the way home.

Once i got home we had a big lunch loaded the car up and headed to Kaiteriteri. On arriving at Kt we had a half hour nap, then got into it.

We were lucky enough to strike the only bit of bad weather the whole weekend. The wind came up quickly and we were not making much headway at all. Elin got cold very quickly. When we stopped on Adele Island for her to warm up, she was up to her waist in water in the kayak!

The wind passed quickly and it began raining. We were treated to a great rainbow. Elin also saw her first penguins. We stayed at Te Pukatea Bay. Very nice.

Next day was beautiful. We had a big breakfast then paddled out round Tonga Island. Plenty of seals, some big boys out there! We stopped off in Sandfly bay for a lie down.

The final paddle back to Kaiteriteri was great, we had a howler of a tailwind. It took us very little time, catching heaps of runners. I was pretty ruined as we turned into Kaiteri, trying to pull a laden double over the backs of waves isnt easy.

Great weekend...where training meets romance!