So I have kind of dropped the ball on this whole blog thing...In the last 17 days I have really only been home for about 4 of them. Crazy right? I have been doing crazy amounts of travelling so I will make 3 different posts about the 3 trips that I took recently. Firstly you all get to learn about the West Coast and the Glaciers!
On October 7 we set off for the Punakaiki Pancake rocks and Blowholes. This is a cool area where there are stacks of stone that is in sheets. Scientists cannot fully explain why the rocks do this.
From Punakaiki we scooted our way down to Hokitika, the Jade pub of New Zealand. We camped next to the beautiful Lake Matheson where we listened to a Morepork, New Zealands only Native owl...their call really is "Mooore-pork Mooore-Pork". While in Hokitika I bought a Jade ring :) After a rainy day of shopping we moved on to Gillespies Beach which was an old gold mining settlement.
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| Part of an abandoned bucket dredge |
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| Coolest sheep ever |
We stayed there for two night because it was in a great location to get to Fox Glacier and to see Mount Cook; NewZealand's highest mountain.
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| The Twin Peaks: Mount Tasman and Mount Cook |
We did a nice hike to Fox Glacier where we got to see it from above and then we walked to 200 meters from the ice face. You cannot get any closer than this unless you pay big bucks for a guide and the proper gear. It was here that we saw our first Kea, the only Alpine parrot in the world!
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| Coolest person in the world |
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| Fox Glacier |
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| Kea |
We finished the trip with a hike through a pitch black glow-worm cave that had a river running through it. Let me tell you, that water was cold! And the cave was about 3/4 of a km long. Once you got to the end you were forced to turn back right away because there was no where to go except back so in total I walked a km and a half through that creek. Our final adventure for the trip was a drive up a super steep hill that our rental car couldn't get going more than 25 kmph. And thus concludes out tour of the West Coast.
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