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Hokitika Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hokitika, New Zealand
Stopping off at Hokitika
After a visit to the pancake rocks in Punaikiki on the West coast of New Zealand we found a lovely spot to camp next to this empty beach. ...
The Poo Pub
On our itinery this was simple stated as a stay at the Poo pub. Enroute we find out that we are off to a fancy dress party at Les's pub where we will be making our outfits out of bin bags from the supermarket that we are going to visit. So imagine 60 ...
From North to South and East to West
... . Unfortunately, it was raining on the pass. We weren't able to do the hiking as planned. We continued onto Hokitika where we are staying for the night at the Stations Inn. We arrived in the afternoon around 4PM and we went into ...
Pacific ocean to tasman sea in one day (oct ...
... the road and the large cranes and other machinery. We reached the west coast at Kumara Junction and headed south to Hokitika. The east coast that we left this morning consisted of charming fishing villages in sheltered bays while the west coast was ...
Hoki to the locals!
... . Stu bought me a lovely Greenstone necklace and Greenstone ear-rings for my birthday (which is on Wed 28 Feb) Hokitika is a small town, and we will be heading to Greymouth tomorrow and spending the night there. Oh well, more updates ...
Hokitika
The Jade carving centre of NZ Full of shops selling carved Jade, Paua and bone Little market on where there was a woman with a really cute dog who I gave a little stroke ...
Lake Kaniere
Last night we stayed by Lake Kaniere, it is again!!! the most gorgeous setting, Yesterday we went for a 3 hour walk to Dorethy falls which was lovely, Baz today is climbing Mount Tuhua, we do not know the height, but will find out but it is a 7 hour ...
Hanging Ten in Hokitika
... a rather wild and cold sea and then lay and relaxed on the soft grey sand for a while before returning for a beer and dinner. Hokitika was centre of the gold rush in the 1860s but the harbour was a very difficult, sandy spit to navigate at the entrance ...
NZ here we come
... by rain and very low clouds! Once over he pass the rain eased and we finally saw the sun and blue skies. Arrived in Hokitika late morning - quiet seaside town famous for jade and not much else. Visited local gorge and did several walks in the fantastic ...
Finding time to get bored!
... of insect repellent we applied to ourselves. The rest of the afternoon took us past the most photographed stretch of road in New Zealand, being a granite rock overhanging a single track road - for about 50 meters. As the gorge opened up there were ...
much adventure
... but also that we didn't have to go on a day-long trek to reach this part of the glacier. After Fox we drove on to Hokitika to spend the night and have a look at the glow-worm dell conveniently located just over the road from our holiday park. This ...
Driving, and driving, and driving, and...
... not quite sure how we looked at this day when planning the trip and thought, "Hey, this should be pleasant!" Cardrona to Hokitika is a lot of driving. It's not really that much driving when compared to childhood vacations or marathon drives across the USA ...
Hoki
... to the campsite to pick up the other two still just getting out of bed and we made the 33km drive out to see the Hokitika Gorge amid pretty solid rain. The drive howvere was definately worth it as we climbed down the slippery path in our jandals to come ...
Fox Glacier Minted
... cross crevasses, skip seracs and crawl through ice caves before the helicopters come back to pick us up. See photos. The drive to Hokitika takes longer than we had thouight so it is 2030 by the time we get into the campsite. Just in time to ...
The Gods Spoke at Sunset
Hokitika is famous for its sunsets, pictures follow; no words required. ...
Hokey Pokey
Long drive down from Nelson, stopping at the longest swingbridge in NZ, over the Buller river. Where we panned for gold (and found some), got eaten alive by sandflies :-( We took the quick route back tandem comet!! ...
Vroom Vroom.. to the WFF??!
... The plan was to pick up Cecile in Nelson after id finished work, get the tkts, and drive on down the west coast to Hokitika. This loose plan worked up until... oh about 9pm-ish id guess?! Then, after me nicely pulling over to ...
First things first
In this chapter we'll tell about the way from Christchurch to Hokitika - west-coast. It all started with a beautiful ride through the great Plato's of Canterbury. Surprisingly, Dardasaba survived all the way which included stops in ...
Greenstone Carving
Here i stayed in a small hostel which had a path down the back garden which led directly to the beach, which was really cool. The guy who ran it was a bit wierd but he did greenstone carvings where he let you carve your own. He cut the shape with the ...
The Poo Pub
... can't drink you're own alcohol in any of the hostels here if they have a bar - licensing laws are pretty strict in New Zealand and a licensed premises is not allowed to let any guests drink their own alcohol or they risk losing their licence. But Les and ...
Greymouth and Mahinapua
After a nice breakfast we set off on our journey along the West Coast visiting Capefoulwind Seal Colony (pretty cute seals but smelly) then punakaiki pancake rocks and blowholes, after the scenic start to the trip we stopped in Greymouth to pick up ...
Hokitika - much Jade carvingness
... It turns out that my battery finally died after six long years. I was actually pretty happy to invest in a new battery once I got to Hokitika. Hokitika is a smallish town a few hours south of takaka. We opted to stay here, rather than go to somewhere ...
A trip to the West (aka 'wet') Coast: Hokitika
... . So remote and untouched, it reminded us of many lakes in British Columbia, but without summer cottages dotted around it. In New Zealand, the shoreline of any body of water belongs to everyone. Cottages might have views, but not exclusive access to the ...
Lake Mahinapua
We had a later start this morning and saw more of the rugged West coast - I love it! We also saw the Weka bird, which is a relation of the Kiwi bird. They're quite tame, and our driver was feeding one bread so we could get photos....such tourists! We ...
Lake Mahinapua - fancy dress and partying
... . We bumped into Sally, who is Ed's brother's girlfriend, in Westport, and she's travelling with us at the moment (hurray, another new face), so we're a six now! I was dressed as a Superstar (I thought long and hard about that one), while Fran was Ice ...
The 'Poo Pub' - Lake Mahinapua
this wasnt my favourite stop by far, so i wont go into too much detail! it is a unique stop for the kiwi bus, where a 86yr old west coast grumpy man entertains hauds of drunk kiwi bus people each and every night!!!! you dress up, have a steak dinner ...
What a wonderful Day
... eventually left his garden we were loaded up with veg and felt that this was going to be a good day. Off to the town called Hokitika and went to book in on a site called Shining Star which was right on the beach. The beach was a fabulous length of golden ...