After our day of recovery, we headed for a day at the beach. S
imon and Casey (the guys from the bar), met us there. We had a great day. Mel and Simon had quite a match of soccer, where Mel showed him a thing or two. Quite impressive. That night we crashed at Simon and Paul's house which had turned into a bit of a hostel. There was Mel and I, a girl from Quebec and a girl from Chile. Paul was quite excited to find out that Mel was from Nelson and that he could come stay with her on his trip to Canada next year. Anyways, we had a very kiwi dinner of lamb and sausages. It was good (especially having somebody else cook). The next day, Simon dro
ve us down the coast on his way to work. We stopped at a swinging bridge where I was attacked by sandflies (my toes got the brunt of it). That night we stayed in Westport (I don't recommend it). My mom had a pretty good description, a lot like Sparwood. We did laundry which was definately needed. Yesterday we headed further down the coast to Hokitika. On the way we stopped at Punikaki where there are the coolest rock formations. They call it the pancake rocks. Mel decided to work on her lifelong goal of becoming a punga person (people who live in the flax). Anyways,
Hokitika is about as eventful at Westport, although last night we walked up to the glow worm dell which was pretty cool. We had to overcome a slight fear of the dark and the fact that at home, we would have been in prime cougar habitat. Today is a bit of a write-off as it is raining like crazy. We are waiting for our bus and heading off to the Franz Joseph Glacier. Should be good.
imon and Casey (the guys from the bar), met us there. We had a great day. Mel and Simon had quite a match of soccer, where Mel showed him a thing or two. Quite impressive. That night we crashed at Simon and Paul's house which had turned into a bit of a hostel. There was Mel and I, a girl from Quebec and a girl from Chile. Paul was quite excited to find out that Mel was from Nelson and that he could come stay with her on his trip to Canada next year. Anyways, we had a very kiwi dinner of lamb and sausages. It was good (especially having somebody else cook). The next day, Simon dro
ve us down the coast on his way to work. We stopped at a swinging bridge where I was attacked by sandflies (my toes got the brunt of it). That night we stayed in Westport (I don't recommend it). My mom had a pretty good description, a lot like Sparwood. We did laundry which was definately needed. Yesterday we headed further down the coast to Hokitika. On the way we stopped at Punikaki where there are the coolest rock formations. They call it the pancake rocks. Mel decided to work on her lifelong goal of becoming a punga person (people who live in the flax). Anyways, 
Hokitika is about as eventful at Westport, although last night we walked up to the glow worm dell which was pretty cool. We had to overcome a slight fear of the dark and the fact that at home, we would have been in prime cougar habitat. Today is a bit of a write-off as it is raining like crazy. We are waiting for our bus and heading off to the Franz Joseph Glacier. Should be good.
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