Sunday, March 2, 2008

Down South

More Lochmara Lodge....After taking the water taxi back to Picton we picked up our rental car and drove to Able Tasman National Park for a few days. We stayed in a lovely holiday house and spent a day hiking around the GORGEOUS bays and admiring all the family 'baches' on the beach. Made us think that we'd love to have a holiday house to stay within our family throughout the years...
Able Tasman National Park - filled with Mellow hiking trails - we hiked for about 5 hours with pit stops at beaches along the way. We were all pretty tired at the end...and enjoyed a few beers at the holiday house (which funnily enough came stocked with beer!) Ha ha
Luca's getting so strong now -he holds his head up a lot! We also enjoy having 'conversations' with him. He's so much more responsive now...so much fun :-) Unfortunatly the water was just a bit too chilly for him to get in it. Dad and Fran also thought it was really cold. Our summer in NZ feels like their Florida winters.
After Able Tasman we made our way to Blenheim - the vinyard capital of NZ...famous for making Savignon Blanc. We did the wine tour, picked up a few bottles along the way.
Luca and Dad on the wine tour. Luca looks passed out...but I swear he didn't have a drop of alcohol!

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