We are on the westernmost tip of the South Island, overlooking the Tasman Sea inside the Abel Tasman National Park. During the night cames to find us an earthquake … The earthquake, of magnitude 7.0 Richter, occurred 60 km from Mount Taranaki (the conical one all snow-covered …) and our bed danced for a good minute .. Everything is fine, nothing has fallen, nothing has broken, kisses everyone.
This morning we go for a nice walk, wake up and breakfast, then we go to the tip of Farewell Spit where we go for a long walk along the beach to the site of Fossil beach long and desolate but beautiful sandy dune beach with overlooking a winter sea. On the way back we stop at the hotel to eat something. In the afternoon, we go to Wharariki beach and reach it after a 20-minute walk among cows and sheep grazing quietly. We look out onto another sandy beach facing two huge rocks and where baby seals sometimes play in the natural pools left by the low tide. We found four puppies with mum and dad and we watched them play for a long time. Then as sunset was approaching, we stop for watching the sun going down towards the sea. We have to go to sleep early that tomorrow we expect a long drive of almost 600 kilometers.