The 2 day trip down
the west coast to the Glacier area has been wonderful. We drove through the Buller Gorge, a
beautiful river valley between 2 mountain ranges. We were then out at the Tasman Sea coast and
saw spectacular seascapes –like we have seen in Northern California but much
more extensive. We stopped at the
Pancake Rocks and Blowholes. It is best
at high tide and we got there at exactly high tide.
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| Pancake Rocks |
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| Blowhole |
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| Knight's Point |
Our first night was
in Hokitika, the B and B was like a beautiful mountain lodge in BC above a river
valley. We wished we had had more than
one night at it. Hokitika is the
Greenstone (jade) Centre for New Zealand so there were lots of interesting
things to look at. One store was more
like an information center about jade and the woman was very informative.
The second night was
at Fox Glacier. The glaciers are really
the only reason for the towns of Fox Glacier and Franz Joseph Glacier to exist
so there isn’t a lot to do there besides seeing the glaciers. I did have 2 great hikes – one to the face of
the Fox Glacier and the other in search of Mount Cook. I did them on my own as Lois couldn’t have
managed either.
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| The Face of Fox Glacier |
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