Travel Blog Photos from West Coast South Island (96)
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... them by the river before walking along the bank looking for natural jade stones. Decided to move on, drove through Ross (gold mining town). Ended up 200km south of Greymouth at a lakeside campsite (DoC operated $5 per adult per night) Yahtzee & Chess
... perceptive father remarked: "I bet you wish you'd come 10 minutes earlier." Yes, quite. From Punakaiki we pushed on south along the west coast to Franz Joseph glacier. As we drove, the massive, snow-dusted bulk of the Southern Alps came into view and ...
... to Franz Josef Glacier and into Glacier Country. This is supposed to be one of the most scenic drives in the South Island but unfortunately all we saw was the inadequate windscreen wipers of our Nissan Sunny traversing backwards and forwards across the ...
... to the harbour to enjoy lunch and a tugboat was pulling this HUGE load of coal up towards the North Island! Wow. It was massive!! Everyone that comes to New Zealand has to make a stop at the Punakaki Pancake rocks! They are rocks that are layered and look ...
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