Golden Bay to Tasman Bay

Monday 19th November
We had a bit of a problem with the last blog - I think I was too loquacious and I was stopped mid-sentence! And it won't let us edit it/ put photos in so I will just carry on from where I left off and maybe we'll add some of the photos to this blog.
I forgot to say that on the way from Collingwood to Takaka we stopped at the Mussell Inn, a character-filled cafe, where we of course had to have some yummy mussell chowder.

Washed down with their home brewed beer!

Alongside the 1.5 km water race

I think Trish is doing the washing!

From the Pupu Hydro Walkway which took us a couple of hours we headed back to Pohara Beach, out of Takaka. This time we stayed the night in the Top 10 Camp ground ( the most expensive we have stayed at being $39.50 with our NZMCA discount + extra for a shower which was puny) as I had a couple of loads of washing to do and we wanted to get all our electronic devices charged up. It was going to be the last of the sunny days and it's nice to get the washing out on the line. It also seemed to be about the first time we had actually relaxed in the sunshine with a magazines, puzzles etc!

I also took the opportunity to make Jos's famous fruit cake as I had a lot of dried fruit in the 'pantry' that needed to be used. I put it in the camp oven in the morning and other campers were very envious because of the lovely baking aroma wafting out of the kitchen!

It was raining and foggy on Saturday so instead of driving back over the big hill we wnet round the corner from the camp ground to the Pahara Boat Club where we stayed on our way up and is a great parking spot. $2 for a GREAT shower and gold coins donation to park on their big grassed area. We were joined by about 7 other travellers.
The weather cleared yesterday so we drove over the Takaka hill all the way to Greenacres Golf Club which is on Best Island out of Nelson. It's connected to the mainland by a causeway and is a nice course to play on - which we did on arriving after 3.00pm. They were happy for us to park up for the night and this is where we still are. Tomorrow our bus is booked in to get a little rust removed from underneath and around the door so we'll probably have to go window shopping to fill some time in!

Not sure yet where we will park tonight - maybe at the Nelson Golf Club if we play another game today.