Off the West Coast

Tuesday 28^th January

I had a look at the weather report yesterday and it said the whole of South Island was going to be bathed in sunshine for a few days, so we decided to cross the country to the West Coast and the glaciers!

We had the most wonderful drive from Hamner Springs over the mountains to Westport, straight across, through the mountains. . It was just stunning, wending our way our mountain passes, climbing up to the top of one, down and then back up another. All the time, a river running by our side, sometimes just a dribble others really wide.

 

We finally reached Westport on the other side. A small town on the coast, a great place to stop off for the night. We booked into a small camp site which is just great and we have already got a resident cat, a large grey and white, sitting outside looking at us pleadingly. I dropped him some morsels whilst Rod wasn't looking.

A brilliant quiet day, we had dinner, some good wine and watched the stars comes out.