Lake Rotoiti 10/26/2008
 

We have been up to Lake Rotoiti before, it's in the Nelson Lakes national park about 1hr 20mins from Nelson. We headed up there last Sunday to have a play on the boat in a stress free environment - no tides to worry about (and Nelson has some on the lowest/highest tides in NZ), no waiting for our turn on the slip road - no nothing really but us, some ducks, some very big eels and a very large lake. We had a fun day - the weather wasn't 100% but it was dry and sunny and the boat went well. We flew around a bit, had a play with the engine/trim/handling and stopped at the far end for a walk in the woods and a picnic. Check out the Pics on Flickr (go to Photos above) and if your ever over this way we'll probably take you up there - it will be great for waterskiing when the weather warms up a bit.

 


Comments

Copley

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:55:01

Can you stroke the big eels?

 

PJ

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:51:56

You can feed them but they are a bit big for stroking - they are MASSIVE. If we head up there you and Buster can have a go at catching one

 

Roy and Celia

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:42:08


Yuk, maybe they are those big scary Conger Eels? Give them a wide berth!

 

PJ

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:48:00

Its fresh water mum, not the Gold Coast! I am pretty sure they are just very big common eels. The locals seem very proud of them 8)

 

Jemma

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:25:30

Longfin eels? Just looked at some on youtube...pretty huge!

 

PJ

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:59:14

Good Googling Mrs Coppers, I was pretty sure they weren't Congas anyway.

Off surfing this morning - groovy! A friend of mine is right into it so we are going out in the bay. There are supposed to be loads of seals and Stingrays floating around the rocks so I'll have to make sure I don't do an Irwin. I'll report back on how easy it was....

 



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