The next day we did the water taxi/day hike/water taxi thing...Marahau to Torrent Bay, on foot to Bark Bay, and then back to Marahau. We might have done more, but the time and tides did not serve well. Still, it was one of our better days on the Abel Tasman.
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Students of this blog will recall that embarkation and debarkation
of the water taxis from Marahau involves boarding the boat, on
a trailer in the parking lot, and then being tractored down into the
water, whether at high or low tide; on the various beach landings,
the boat has a ramp which sometimes keeps your feet dry |
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Our skipper took us on a detour down to Kaiteriteri to see the
Split Apple boulder |
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Letting some other passengers off at Anchorage (see map, previous
post) |
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Now ashore at Torrent Bay; on the map you can see the low-tide
bay crossing from Anchorage...but it's high tide now; later we
learned the high-tide trail was closed due to a stream crossing
bridge that was out |
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The spit at Torrent Bay; the low-tide bay crossing from Anchorage
is at its right, now flooded |
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| On the trail |
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| More clear stream water |
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| Ritual photo of Vicki on a swing bridge |
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| A slip from yesteryear, now repaired |
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The bush can seem pretty intense at times, but there's
nothing within that will harm nor eat you...except
the sand flies, which seemed strangely absent this
year...or maybe it was all the Deet I marinated in |
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| Abundant, informative, and timely trail signage |
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| Another huge slip, across Bark Bay |
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Welcome to Bark Bay, where we've camped and
also stayed in the hut in previous years |
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| On our taxi back to Marahau |
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| Picking up more passengers at Anchorage |
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| Back at Marahau, angling to get on our tractor/trailer |
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