Birgit im Abenteuerland ...

Day 3: Anchorage to Marahau

Again up for sunrise but not much to see from this camp ground/ beach.

Our kayak adventure today brought us first into a lagoon a little up north which does only exist at high tide. Then we had to kayak what they call “the mad mile”, rather rough sea but we were really lucky, weather & wind was with us and it was not even “a semi-mad mile”. At our lunch location we climbed first across sharp rocks, through a little cave and up a steep hill to enjoy lovely views around.

We ended our kayaking trip with an epic sail!

Have you ever seen a raft of kayaks sailing?!? No?!? well, me neither but it was a lot of fun.

How does it work:

The 3 remaining double kayaks where brought together into a raft (all parallel next to each other). I unfortunately couldn’t take pix as with my left hand I had to hold the bottom left corner of the sail and with my right hand I had to hold on to the boat besides me – and there are big forces around which try to separate the kayaks – especially waves. Ok, outer front ppl hold the botton of the sail, the outer back ppl hold the sail tied to their paddle up high in the air.

And wooohooo – off we go. When we did that the wind picked up and we sailed for quite a while with up to 15 knots back to the beach in Marahau! Wow, that was really a memorable end to an AMAZING trip :D

After clean-up, shower, and another awesome real fruit icecream I drove back to Nelson.