Hokitika Craft Gallery Co-op

12th of October

It took most of the morning to travel from Greymouth to Franz Josef. We stopped off at Hokitika which is a town famous for Pounamu (Greenstone) and Ross which is a town famous for its Gold Mining. We then travelled through Westland National Park before arriving in the cute little alpine village of Franz Josef.

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West coast cycle tour, North to South, Greymouth to Wanaka or Queenstown no definitely Wanaka that's far enough!!

The Wet Coast as it’s described in the book is a badge of honour for those in the know, well we didn’t know! We are to be challenged mentally and physically mmmm my favourite type of challenge. The wind the rain the …

Today was a little overcast cancelling any plans of a fly over the glaciers. In hind sight, we were happy with our experience of the Glaciers with no need to explore the ice craigs.

The valley walk into Franz Josef glacier was again well maintained and showed some great photo oppoutunities with waterfalls and interesting rock cliffs carved …

Today we leave again quite late as somebody has to sleep at least 10 hours. After doing some unnecessary shopping we get the more necessary gas and start our trip further down the western coast. The weather is very nice again, a lot of sunshine and with about 23° really warm. Our first stop is in Hokitika, a small town with a more or less …