I'm back home now, though I have a couple more kid-free days before they get back. Hopefully I'll use that time to finish building the shed and also do the lemmy update, which I saw has come out. As a point release I'm assuming it won't have to do database migrations and so should be pretty quick to update, but I'll test that assumption before doing it for real. If it's super quick, I won't schedule it ahead of time and will just do it when I'm ready. I always post in the matrix chat room if you want to know when I'm doing it.

I posted some photos on previous days, but here are some maps of places I went. Any places here that show water I was walking over at low tide, so at most wading but mostly it was sand at the time.

Walk up sky track to meet the Abel Tasman coastal track, along to Onetahuti beach, then back around wetlands track. About 7km including some side tracks.

map with line on it showing walk from lodge to Onetahuti beach

Kayak tour around Awaroa inlet, then out around Awaroa Head looking at fur seals, and we landed on a little beach and had a cup of tea/coffee and a biscuit, and some people had a swim, then we kayaked back. All in all about 7-8km and took about 3 hours, including stops.

map with line on it showing kayak trip around inlet and headland

Walk from lodge to hut, around inlet, and back (including a swim, but I didn't take my phone in the water 😆). About 7km.

map with line on it showing walk around Awaroa inlet

Walk from Tōtaranui back to lodge. About 6km to the start of the inlet, including our excursions off the sides. Almost 10km by the time we got back to the lodge, not including water taxi up there.

map with line on it showing water taxi up to Tōtaranui then back to lodge including walking/wading over the inlet

Full map

map of Awaroa with line on it showing where I went

Bonus: Water taxi route down coast back to Kaiteriteri, about 31km and takes about 1.5 hours.

Map of coast showing path water taxi took

[–] Dave 4 points 10 months ago

Update: The update is done.

I got logged out (twice) but was able to log back in and now all seems to be working fine!

[–] thevoyagekayaking 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Abel Tasman is one of the most beautiful parts of the country, I hope you had a great time. I still want to actually walk the track one day.

[–] Dave 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, it was great! Was just there to relax and so didn't walk much of the track (I guess about 1/5th since it's about 60km long, and we walked around 9km from the north and 4 from the south), but we still got some great views, saw both older and regenerating forest, had some refreshing swims, waded through a low-tide inlet crossing a few times, and saw so many weka they felt almost as common as sparrows, not to mention all the fur seals, shags, and oyster catchers.

The coast has heaps of people kayaking as well. I guess you can hire them somewhere, going up the coast in the water taxi there were dozens and dozens of them spread along the coast and beaches.