Nelson-Lakes

19th & 20th December 2009 Yesterday morning we spent a pleasant hour walking around Nelson market with its colourful mixture of stalls selling everything from paintings to clothes, knives to food. We bought some fresh vegetables for our tea and some cakes for lunch. Then we headed south to our next destination at Nelson Lakes. We had found a very small hostel with only 6 beds set on a farm near the Nelson Lakes National Park. We took the scenic route from Nelson and drove through acres and acres of tall pine trees which were obviously being grown for logging. ...