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Hey everyone,<br />So Again a long time passed since my last mail, And this time I will try and keep this update much shorter.<br />On my last update I was in wellington the capital of NZ and the city where you take the ferry(boat) to the south Island from.

Start of the south Island.

Omer Ramote
2006-04-02 21:54:35

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to christchurch, because ron's girlfriend arrived and we had to go pick her up. At christchurch I met daniel, a friend from the army and we talked and decided maybe to travel together later. I went up then with ron to kaikoura, which is a town surrounded but all of the water life like dolphins and whales. I did a swim with the dolphins, it was amazing! you swim with hundreds of them, they jump over you and beneth you, it's great, I also got a bit sea sick from the boat and from swiming around the dolphins, but even that was an experience.

From kaikoura I went back to christchurch, I tried to hitchhike there but with no success so I took the bus.
There I met daniel and we decided to buy a car together. We bought a mazda station wagon 1994, which looks fine, let's hope there will be no problems:).

Right after we bought the car we went to hamner springs, a place with hot springs in the middle of very nice scenery, we spent only one night there and cut to they city Nelson, which is in the north of the south island.I met amir and ofri again which was nice.

There in nelson me and daniel did the abel tasman, it's a coast track lof 3 days,we did 1 day kayaking, which was a lot of fun, and amazing views, but there was a lot of wind, it was really hard doing the kayaking. The guide was proud of our group that we did it.
Afterwards we walked the rest of the 2 days, abel tasman is a pretty calm track so it was fun.

We were camping with a tent, and the 2nd night it rained, i must say it was an experience since our tent was not really rain proof, but we somehow managed to sleep.
Now after the track I am here writing to you. from here we are gonna go north to the goldenbay which is supposed to be a very relaxed area, and then go to do the nelson lakes track which is supposed to be amazing.

Anyways, I am waiting to hear everything that is going on with all of you, it is great hearing your replys and it makes me really homesick.
But, I am still enjoying myself too much.