We have made it to the south island! We are staying with Brice's aunt right outside Abel Tasman National Park near Nelson at yet again a beautiful house with an awesome vegitable garden.
On the north island we went to Raglan hoping to score some surf, but of course it was totally flat. But you could see the potential for the points to be absolutely firing lefts. Which tortured me even more! Then we went to lake Taupo, which is essentially the Lake Tahoe of New Zealand. Here we did a 19 km hike, the Tongariro Alpine Crossing and climbed mount Doom, or Mt Ngauruhoe as it is rightfully called. This added another 700 meters of climbing to the 19 km hike but was totally worth it. We can say that we climbed the real mount Doom in the heart of Mordor! But the most epic part was that it took us about an hour to climb it and literally about 10 to 15 minutes to get down. This is because it was like climbing a 700 m sand dune and we ran down the whole thing, taking hill running to a whole new level!
We then made our way to Wellington and across the straight on the ferry and now we are here and about to set out on the real adventure. We have to go to the DOC office to narrow down the treks that we are going to do but we are getting ready to take off into the wilderness. I hope to run the Perth river down here too, which really does exist even though most locals I talk to dont believe me.
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