Our First Big Tramp in New Zealand

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A couple days ago we did a 5 hour hike in the Abel Tasman National Park! First, we took a 2 hour boat ride to get to the hiking place. 

On the way we ate lunch and saw seals on rocks!! There was about 5 seals, they were so cute! 

 Then when we got there we hiked for about 3 hours and then we met some people from Colorado! We did not actually know them we just started hiking and talking together. 


 When we came to a stop we firgured we did not have a lot of water. but then there was this place we could fill our water bottles so we filled them and went on with our hike. 

 Then we went to a waterfall, called “cleopatra’s pool”. We swam in it and then did the last hour of the hike that took us to the beach. 


 Soon the boat arrived and it took us to the place they picked us up, but you will not belive this, we saw Whales! There was a big family and it was so rare that was the 5th time whales were spotted from the boat that we were on. 

 The end!

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