Chetwood Forest And Beyond

Back across Tekaka Hill and over toward the Bay lies Chetwood Forest, where Sam and Frodo left the Shire and where Aragorn led the four hobbits "into the Wild." Well, the location was some woods and clearings in or near Abel Tasman National Park. We had the GPS but couldn't identify anything in particular. But it certainly felt like it was out of the Shire and into the Wild. Especially the sand flies.

Thus

Thus

And thus

View toward Nelson

Weird rocks in the vicinity

We'd had enough adventure for the last several days and
crashed in a cabin at the Maitai Motor Camp near Nelson;
an administrative day and then a do-nothing day

Of course, only a couple hundred meters away, near the
"static" part of the camp, was another lovely Kiwi rig