NELSON - MOTUEKA

Hung over we checked out and drove back through Richmond and spend an hour there. Drove onto Motueka just outside Abel Tasman national park.

Hostels canny but there are loads of Argentianians here who are working picking fruit but who all seem to talk at the volume of jumbo jets. One lass, a great whale of a girl, did not close her mouth once, just jabbered away in Spanish, so loud the North Island could have heard her across the sea. When she had nothing left to say she banged out drum beats on the table and her thunderous thighs with her dustbin lids for hands. Man, she drove me round the bend!!!

Checked out the town, bought some food and cooked it in 'the kitchen of a thousand decibels'

Up early the morn for sea kayaking in the national park!!