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Hokitika Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hokitika, New Zealand
Awatuna means water and Tuna!!
A great B&B in the perfect location. Chery6l and Malcom made us very welcome and we enjoyed Cheryl's home cooking very much. They have a number of sheep and lambs and 2 goats in their beautiful garden! We drove down and back ...
Ocean waves and snow peaks
... ears which are several meters tall and at the same time you are looking at the Southern Alps…does such a thing exist?? Yes, in New Zealand! And at sunset the snow peaks even glow red. In addition to the red glow and the snowy white you have colorful ...
South Island: Week One Round Up - Part 1 of 2
Hi all (this is Katie), here are some snippets from both of us. We are now in the South Island with mixed feelings about leaving the North Island behind. We had really enjoyed the north island but felt we still had ...
Etape 12 : Marche et crève! Un pneu c'est tout!
... sont un peu lourdes de la veille. Nous prévoyons de bifurquer sur notre gauche, pour prendre un petit chemin en direction d'Hokitika, à 20kms. Nous y avons repéré un camping gratuit, comme celui d'hier, où poser notre tente pour la nuit. De plus, ...
Walking on ice.....
Our way to Franz Joseph today is a cool ride down, we pop through a Deer Hunting Museum which is very very popular here in NZ.... It's quite cool to wonder around and find out how deer hunters caught deer from Helicopters whilst swinging down catching ...
from fake rain to the real kind
Woke up to the sound of rain this morning; just a light patter on the tent. Then I realized it was actually a barrage of sand-flies hitting the tent... For breakfast, we had the delicious cereal that the Alaskans gave us, it was a really good, high class ...
Hokitika & Westport
... first proper town we've seen since Wanaka. We went to the wildlife centre as we thought we had to see a kiwi while we're in New Zealand. It was in a really dark room so as not to scare it, which meant you couldn't really see it very well. But basically ...
Car trouble
... but first we checked our car ab we had noticeably lost oil and you could see it on the engine, so when we got to Hokitika we stopped at a mechanics, the first one had no spare time but roughly said $100 repair. Where we then went to another mechanic ...
Risk in the car
It had rained all day and showed no signs of stopping. You could no longer see the lake and the ground was turning soggy. We rearranged the car so we could spend the day in day in it. We started our fun by playing risk which I won again and Marc's not ...
Sunny Sunday
We woke to the sound of silence, no rain just clouds! So we got out of the mud and drive to Hokitika where the sun had come out to play! We treated ourselves to hot drinks and then we sat and chilled on the beach in the beautiful sun which was relaxing ...
The sorry news about Tyrone
We were up early as we were dropping our car at the garage. We then went and chilled in the library. After that it was breakfast/lunch, Marc got a Pasty and I a sandwich. We sat on the beach listening to the waves and chilling. We found the good/bad news ...
Tyrone gets fixed
Up at 6.30 so the garage could get started on the car at 7. We went to the local swimming pool to kill some time and get some exercise. It was far to early to persuade ourselves to swim and also the pool was rather cold and so not very enjoyable. Anyway ...
A wonderful match
... medication. After we were done there we drove through to Hokitika. I would definitely like to go back to Hokitika and explore more than just the New World super market there. Laura and Tony wanted to go camping somewhere so we found this little DOC site ...
Hokitika
... to pick up some ‘coldies’ and rethink our destination. A few kilometres further was the largest town in the area, Hokitika. After finding a place to stay, we walked to the pub, on ‘annual race day’. Needless to say, it ...
Land of the Lagoons
... a take-out place (we were feeling cheap) and were a bit taken aback by the food. It’s always interesting ordering anything in New Zealand, because you never know what you’re going to get. For example, our burgers came with some sort of mayo, ...
South Island: Week One Round Up - Part 2 of 2
Gore Bay/Motonua Beach/Amberley Leaving Kaikoura we decide to take in a few sights before our final destination of Amberley, decision based solely on the presence there of a petrol station. The south island in particular can be sparseness ...
Change of plans
... . he just kept say "mind-boggling." One can certainly see why the producer of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings chose New Zealand for a location. The trek was good exercise for us since we sit in a car watching beautiful landscape go by for much of ...
A journey is measured in friends,rather than miles
... testicle sheep testicle lion burger--- is this legal? everyone was in complete costume, you looked out of place if you weren't in one. 15,000 people attended the event and we got to interact with the people and food of New Zealand's culture. ...
Driving up the west coast
... we stopped at Lake Matheson. On a clear day you can see reflections of Mount Cook and Mount Tasman ( 2 highest mountains in New Zealand) but unfortunately there were too many clouds today but it was still very pretty. The drive up the coast was very ...
STREAKING
Our next stop was a pub, affably named the 'poo pub' amongst the drivers, in the middle of nowhere. The place had a population of 3 which included NZ's oldest publican, Les, who at the age of 85 or so cooked us up a huge feast (for 100) then allowed us ...
Back in The Umi Van wit Kat the Swedes
Met back up with Kat, Sarah, Malin and Jonahs in Hokitika. Was great to see them again. We headed straight for Franz Joseph where they stayed at a hostel called Mount Rose. The kids running that place where the biggest assholes I've met down here. They ...
Clean clothes
This morning we got packed up and drove to Kaniere Lake. I dropped Drew off at the start of the hike up Mt. Tahua, and I went on to Dorothy Falls, a very nice waterfall with a good spot for swimming. I checked out a little walk to the lake itself and ...
There's green in them thar hills!
... be, George. I wanted to give him something he could have for the rest of his life, something to treasure, which was special from New Zealand and a jade pendant seemed a great idea. But to carve him one myself seemed even better, so I spent the day amazing ...
Lake Mahinapua
We stopped the next night in Westport, a mining town. Not very exciting, hence why I didn't write an entry for it. Amanda and I strapped on the runners and went for an hour jog. Nice to have a running buddy! Along the way from Westport to Lake Mahinapua ...
Le bord de mer
... de trajet... Je commence a stresser car les resultats de mon test ne devraient pas tarder, normalement c'est demain. Je suis arrivee a Hokitika, une petite ville sympa. Tous les magasins vendent la pierre de jade, une pierre verte. Je me relaxe car il ...
Buller Gorge, Punakaiki and Lake Mahinapua
This morning we woke up extra early to catch our jet boat ride in Buller Gorge, which turned out to be completely worth it. There were six of us in this super fast jet boat doing 360s and qcuik turns...I thought my arms would hit the rocks at some point ...
Hokitika - Waiting for the Bus...
... let us know we could leave our bags inside until the bus arrived. Again, have I mentioned how nice the people in New Zealand are. Hokitika is a popular stop along the tour bus lines. There are about half a dozen or more jade shops in town, ...
