Coast to coast

We took off in the morning from Hokitika, which is right on the northern west coast and drove all the way across the country to the far east coast to Christchurch. It took just about 3 1/2 hours! This is a very narrow country.

The terrain is much different on this side of the mountains, and the weather not near as nice. As soon as we got into the mountains, everything cleared up and we had beautiful blue sky again.

There’s a section of highway called “deaths corner” - a viaduct that runs right thru the steepest part of the mountains. It was definitely a bit treacherous driving.

Then we came upon the “castle hill” - a large number of massive boulders on a hillside. We stopped and did some hiking and climbing for a bit. The boulders were HUGE and it was a nice break in the drive.

By afternoon we had made it back to Christchurch, where we started this adventure just 8 days ago. It was a beautiful route thru the southern island - google had great advice, again! I can’t believe my time here is almost over.

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