Spent this morning mooching and deciding where to stop tonight.we headed off and spent an uneventful night at Plesant Flat in Haast Pass,long drive today and we both crashed out early,the pass was looking particularly splendid coated in snow,totally beautiful,
wednesday we drove from Haast to Hokitika via Haast beach ,let elvis out for a run and buried a dead fur seal we found at the beach,Got into Hokitika quite late and decided to stay at NZMHA POP,little did we know a raging storm was following us.we made a fire in the shed at the pop and had a cosy night with elvis snuggled up infront of it.Unfortunately the wind was so fierce when we went to bed that we had to move the van at 1am we were being blown around like anything.
Next morning back on the road again after a quick coffee and fudge stop..........YUMMY
We decided to go to nelson via blackball which was a little out of our way but also incorporated Reefton,had a cool day tikitouring and stoppindg to look around blackball which is an unusual place to say the least and the community centre /Holuiday park/most haunted building in NZ was intreguing,LOL.the pub named the Hilton was preety funky too.We finally landed in Nelson about 6pm.It was awesome to see Val again
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The last month.
Mon 20th Sept
Up early and left Elvis with friends at the POP ,fred and Magoo,and off we headed on our journry to Doubtful Sound................
First up caught a bus to Manapouri pickup outside the POP and thenb transferred to a Boat .we were squished on like sardines and spent an hour or so cruising lake Manapouri .It was raining lightly but quite nice and fairly warm.Off the boat at the other end of the lake to be met by 2Kea who were partying hard at the visiotos centre for the power station.Our journey continued by coach deep underground to Manapouri Power Station which was huge and very cool.again back on coach and headed out to the sound via Wilmot Pass.To my utter delight the pass was waist deep in snow and had bween cleared spo we could continue our journey.We got out and made snow angels and had a snowball fight and then out to the sound.By the time we got there it was lunchtime and weather was sunny and warm??????????????????????????$ seasons in one day.
Doubtful was just mind numbingly beautiful and tranquil.I have seen Milford Sound too but had to say Doubtful was my fave.we saw seals and dolphins and penguins again yeah.Shane spent a lot of time schmuuzing with people which was cute,lol.
We finally headed back and got back to the pop at about 5:30 and packed up and headed off back on our journey up to Nelson.We spent the night exhausted at Kingston parked in the pub carpark with another van.
Up early and left Elvis with friends at the POP ,fred and Magoo,and off we headed on our journry to Doubtful Sound................
First up caught a bus to Manapouri pickup outside the POP and thenb transferred to a Boat .we were squished on like sardines and spent an hour or so cruising lake Manapouri .It was raining lightly but quite nice and fairly warm.Off the boat at the other end of the lake to be met by 2Kea who were partying hard at the visiotos centre for the power station.Our journey continued by coach deep underground to Manapouri Power Station which was huge and very cool.again back on coach and headed out to the sound via Wilmot Pass.To my utter delight the pass was waist deep in snow and had bween cleared spo we could continue our journey.We got out and made snow angels and had a snowball fight and then out to the sound.By the time we got there it was lunchtime and weather was sunny and warm??????????????????????????$ seasons in one day.
Doubtful was just mind numbingly beautiful and tranquil.I have seen Milford Sound too but had to say Doubtful was my fave.we saw seals and dolphins and penguins again yeah.Shane spent a lot of time schmuuzing with people which was cute,lol.
We finally headed back and got back to the pop at about 5:30 and packed up and headed off back on our journey up to Nelson.We spent the night exhausted at Kingston parked in the pub carpark with another van.
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