TRAVEL TALES. NEW ZEALAND.
Where the Tasman Sea Hits the Wild West Coast of New Zealand
And pristine forests are marking the landscape behind endless beaches
It felt so unreal. Standing on the west coast, overlooking the Tasman Sea while inspecting the beach covered in endless flat, round pebbles formed from glaciers thousands of years ago.
After having gotten defeated by the wildness of the West Coast we had left the day before, we woke up on a campsite near the highway crossing the Southern Alps.
The hundreds of sandflies were just waking up creating a noise on our tent that made it sound like it was raining. We didn't get out of our safe place before having porridge for breakfast and enjoying our coffee or tea. Inside.
After we bathed in loads of insect repellent and put on our hat nets keeping any annoying flies off our faces, we were ready to get out and pack up camp.
While many other campers looked amused at the sight of the nets on our heads, they soon became envious as we didn't seem to care about the swarms of these very clingy and…
