Oops! It's been a couple of weeks now since our last blog. Sorry about that! Didn't mean to abandon you all in Hokitika! We enjoyed our trip up the West Coast very much. It was good to get behind the wheel of a car again and most of the time we had the road to ourselves! Had a spurt of creativity while we were in Hokitika and created some beach art! Got the idea from the town website and decided to have a go ourselves! Next it was on to Punakaiki, home of the famous Pancake Rocks. So named because the rocks are stacked up on layers upon layers, l
ooking just like a whole plate full of pancakes! Then it was onto Westport on the Buller River where we
crossed over the longest swingbridge in New Zealand which was very impressive (if a little scary if someone else was coming the other way and you had to pass them in the middle!) Our next and last stop for awhile was Nelson where we are at the moment. The main reason for staying here for awhile was to do some forward planning for the next part of our trip and enjoy being in one place for a few we
eks! Don't think we will ever get bored with the view from our balcony either! Last week we hired a car again and drove right up to the top of South Island to see a bit o
f the Abel Tasman National Park and
Golden Bay. We stayed in Takaka - funky little town with a very arty, hippy, organic, new age, dreadlocks & barefoot kind of feel about it if that makes sense! A highlight was Waikoropupu Springs and yes, the water was just how it looks on the photo! You felt
like you could just dive right it! It's reported to be the world's clearest freshwater springs - the only place where there is known to be water of greater clarity is under the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica! We enjoyed having a few days to drive about again - passing rows of cute little mailboxes all lined up in a row, unusually shaped road tunnels carved right out of the rocks, climbing up
to view Wainui Falls and walking some of the Abel Tasman Coastal Track after being dropped off by boat! We did all that in 2 days, either side of a day spent at Farewell Spit - the 35km long strip of land and sand dunes right at the tip of South Island - see separate blog for more
details and photos!
Oops! It's been a couple of weeks now since our last blog. Sorry about that! Didn't mean to abandon you all in Hokitika! We enjoyed our trip up the West Coast very much. It was good to get behind the wheel of a car again and most of the time we had the road to ourselves! Had a spurt of creativity while we were in Hokitika and created some beach art! Got the idea from the town website and decided to have a go ourselves! Next it was on to Punakaiki, home of the famous Pancake Rocks. So named because the rocks are stacked up on layers upon layers, l
ooking just like a whole plate full of pancakes! Then it was onto Westport on the Buller River where we 
crossed over the longest swingbridge in New Zealand which was very impressive (if a little scary if someone else was coming the other way and you had to pass them in the middle!) Our next and last stop for awhile was Nelson where we are at the moment. The main reason for staying here for awhile was to do some forward planning for the next part of our trip and enjoy being in one place for a few we
eks! Don't think we will ever get bored with the view from our balcony either! Last week we hired a car again and drove right up to the top of South Island to see a bit o
f the Abel Tasman National Park and
Golden Bay. We stayed in Takaka - funky little town with a very arty, hippy, organic, new age, dreadlocks & barefoot kind of feel about it if that makes sense! A highlight was Waikoropupu Springs and yes, the water was just how it looks on the photo! You felt 
like you could just dive right it! It's reported to be the world's clearest freshwater springs - the only place where there is known to be water of greater clarity is under the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica! We enjoyed having a few days to drive about again - passing rows of cute little mailboxes all lined up in a row, unusually shaped road tunnels carved right out of the rocks, climbing up
to view Wainui Falls and walking some of the Abel Tasman Coastal Track after being dropped off by boat! We did all that in 2 days, either side of a day spent at Farewell Spit - the 35km long strip of land and sand dunes right at the tip of South Island - see separate blog for more 
details and photos!
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