We went to Waikoropupu Spring, or Pupu Spring in short and Hydro Walkway the next day. It's located about 10 minutes from Takaka township. Pupu Spring is famous because it has the world's clearest water! Imagine that!
Too bad the wind are quite strong and hinder our opportunity to capture some 'see through' shots :( Anyway, we headed to Hydro Walkway to enjoy some nature walks.
Such a lovely ferns isnt it?
There's all sorts of ferns and moss all around the walkway.. due to the high moisture content and humidity around the area, particular along the canals.
Beautiful place, but a little boring.. the only thing i found attracting is the finding of sundews!
Anyway, after few hours of jungle walks.. we are practically starving! And we gt just the right solution, Anatoki Salmon Farm is just around the corner. We drove about 20min to get there and greeted by a cute donkey on the way in.
The entrance of the salmon farm is pretty interesting, at least to me, cause I'm in the aquaculture industry all this while.
This kind of farms makes me drools, motivate and inspired me at the same time! Looking at those fishes in the water is just satisfying!
and the smells of hot smoked salmon makes me even hungrier! hahaha.. so, quickly, we grab a rod from the office and head to the fishing pond! It is so easy to fish here.. within seconds, we caught 2 huge salmon. One at 2kg and another one at 1.15kg. Lovely...
Smaller one for sashimi and bigger one, hot smoked tandoori! The price of the fresh salmon was $19 per kg, sashimi $5 labor cost, hot smoked $10 cooking cost. Cheap!
Yum yum yum! That meal makes my day! I can have these fishes every day if i live in Takaka!!
After the meal, we drove to Motueka town and check for a suitable date for sky dive. We were glad to book the very next day for our jump, as the weather forecast seems pretty good. We check in at Laughing Kiwi Backpackers for a night, $27 a night if i'm not mistaken, and free 500mb of data for internet. I thought that was sufficient until i finished it in a mere few hours. Damn! Anyway, here's some shot of the backpacker. One of the nicest i think.
and so we prepare ourself mentally for the dive that night. To think of it is pretty scary, but, exciting as well! Never really thought of doing this due to the cost, but we got a great deal and why not? Once in a lifetime...erm.. maybe more in the future XD (i gt addicted after the dive....) I'll post the sky dive photos tomorrow, once i've uploaded everything into my Flickr album.
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