Westward

Today we drove through the Haast Pass to Westland – but first we needed to get petrol and some groceries. We got the same big sandwiches from New World that we took to Welshtown – they are big Turkish bread full of meat and salad – they are yum and we ate todays in a park at Haast.

But first we travelled with all the tourists westward – enjoying the wonderful scenery – stopping to take photos.
The weather forecast was for some rain, but it was a great day – we stopped at Blue Pools and car park was full of cars, campervans and a small bus or two.
We joined the tourist march to the pools and with all the rain the pools were running full. Took our photos and moved on. Stopped some more until we were “waterfalled out”. There was water falling everywhere.
Lunch at Haast and then onwards to Franz Joseph. This part of the drive seemed longer than we expected.
Stopped a couple of times – once to buy icecreams at a spot on the coast. We spent 7 hours on the road today.

Checked into our motel – quite small, but ok. Went downtown for dinner and it started to rain. Went to a place that had Thai cuisine – Thai Robyn Beef salad and I had similar with calamari.
It is raining properly now.

Tomorrow, we go and see the Kotoku, so looking forward to this – we hope that its not too wet – but cloud and mist would be ok.Read more