Wednesday 25 April Abel Tasman National Park (Bark Bay to Torrent Bay)

Woke up to the most amazing day. The ocean was like a mill pond and the view from our accommodation is unbelievable, especially watching the sunrise  (Sarah has done the most amazing job with the accommodation). 

Only a 5 minute drive to the beach where the water taxi picks us up. We had the best skipper and he went out of his way to show us heaps of things on our 1 hr boat ride to our drop off point where we would start the walk, even saw a few blue penguins (we call them fairy penguins).  As the ocean was so flat he said we could stay on the boat while he dropped another passenger off further north and he’d drop in on the local seal colony at Tonga Island.  He parked the boat and said that if we put our hands in the seal pups would come over and we could pat them!  He wasn’t joking. 
The walk took us about 2.5hrs over cliffs, along the coastline, through gullies thick with ferns and moss, even across yet another swing bridge, absolutely amazing.   We had lunch on the beach at Torrent Bay before the water taxi picked us up for our trip back.