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La West Coast
... les mains moites que nous approchons de Monro Beach... Il est tard, il faut marcher 1h30 pour atteindre la plage et il ne faut pas oublier que personne n'a d'informations précises sur ces manchots « Nobody knows what they do and where they go ». Et pourtant... C'est bien notre arrivée qu'ils attendaient pour surfer la vague et arriver tranquilles sur la plage pour se pouiller la crête!
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That West Coast Feelin'
... to bed at Fox Glacier enabled us to get up for a dawn walk at the infamous Lake Matheson where morning light creates fabulous reflections of Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. What is usually a 1.5 hour walk took us about 3 hours as we both photographed the incredible views of the rainforest, the lake and the mountains. After a delicious made-by-us breakfast of French toast with NZ honey, we headed out for a hike to Fox ...
All About Water
... away all those aches from craning our necks to see the wildlife. Or something. One of the pools here was a smelly but nice and hot sulphur pool - the first one we've experienced out of a good few springs we've been to in NZ.
From here, it was back to the west coast across the Lewis Pass. Our first stop was Greymouth; we didn't stay here, but it is home to the Monteith's Brewery so we stopped by to sample some beer. I say we, but someone had ...
I trekked solo!
... wet in the rain funnily enough!). I diverged for an hour and half to Cave Creek - a big bouldery river bed and little cave that couldnt be entered for having a pool in there, there are probably other caves there but i didnt really have time as wanted to get back to the main road before dark. It was really surreal to go from the rainforests of palm and other native trees to open grass areas with pine trees - the sight and smell like uk woodlands. I went onto ...
Franz Josef via Fox to Haast
After a night of being kept awake by a drunken load of Back Packers, we woke up to noise of the rain in the roof. By the time we had got up and showered the Sun had come out. Off to see the second Glazier in Fox so hope the mist clears up so I see it. We stopped at Lake Matheson as the views of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook from the lake are supposed to be postcard views. RW is still not taking the chances in walking anywhere yet, so ...
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