Cool caves and 2 fishies

The weather was a little gloomy but we headed off towards Golden Bay regardless. As we climbed up a massive hill we met the clouds and it got very grim so we decided to pull in and have a coffee at a caves attraction. It actually looked a pretty nice cave trip so we decided to give it a go.

Chris excited

Ancient marble

Climbing down and down...

About to go in the cave

Chris getting friendly with the cave

Stalactites and Stalagmites

Moa remains (bird that's now extinct)

Scary ladder

Kiwi remains

Moa remains

It was pretty awesome and we found out that they filmed some of Lord of the Rings 2 here and also recently some of the Hobbitt. After leaving The Caves we decided to head to a free DoC site in the Cobb Valley.

So high up in the clouds!

We thought it would be a tough drive and we weren’t wrong, lot of twists and turns and rough gravel with sheer drops off the side. We went very slowly and carefully especially as we were in the clouds again.

Happy Chris!!!

We finally reached the Cobb Reservoir a decided to give it a fish before setting up camp. We found a nice spot at the end of the water by the River entrance. We tried a few different areas with no luck then we caught 1 and then a second. Officially Chris’s best fishing day in NZ. We headed to the camping area just in time to see two blokes stripping off and jumping in the River for a wash.

Dinner time

A nice big fire to keep the bugs away

Chris setup the van and collected some firewood whilst I watched the two naked men scrubbing their muscly bodies. Chris made a nice fire and this helped deter the sandflies. It was a clear night and it got pretty cold but I had Chris as my personal hot water bottle to snuggle up to all night.

written by

chrischarly on February 10, 2012 from Takaka, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

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where are the pictures of the bathers? :-)

written by butchop on February 14, 2012

Chris unfortunately made me delete them...

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chrischarly on February 18, 2012

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