The water, the beaches, the bush, It’s everything about the Marlborough Sounds that makes it such an amazing place to be.
Ease your way into the calm clear water, but watch out, you may not realize how chilly and piercing the water really is. Crabs, fish, dolphins, stingrays, so much life under the big blue blanket covering the deep sand banks. The long warfs are popular places to go fishing. In a few minutes everyone is hauling up Tarakihi, Snapper, Blue Cod and Kingfish nearly as big as yourself.
Deer roam around the bushy land keeping a sharp eye out for hunters about to fire their guns. The huntsmen blend in well with the prodigiously green forest when wearing their camo clothes, so pests do not notice the guns barrels pointing as straight as an arrow in their direction. In some places green trees and shrubs is all the eye can see and the sound of birds singing a soft tune is all the ear can hear.
The rocky, shelly sand on the beaches pierce the souls of my feet as I hop around trying to avoid the most sharp rocks. Yellow golden sand covers the beaches that don’t have shelly, rocky sand. Just sinking your feet into it makes you feel as relaxed as having a massage. Fine as it is, the sand is the perfect type for making sand castles and other things.
Even though I don’t visit the Marlborough sounds that often I remember it so well because it is such a captivating place.