Wanaka
Trip Start
Nov 01, 2005
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Trip End
Nov 01, 2006
Wanaka,
New Zealand
Monday, April 17, 2006
Another driving day today.
It`s remarkable how few people there are living on the west coast of the south island.
Since going south of Hokitica the only towns are the twins of Franz Joseph and Foxes glaciers which only exist to cater for tourists and have a shop and petrol station each.
We expected Hast to be a town but it turns out that it has a population of less than 500 living in three different locations, really it`s a chance to refuel. We passed a sign with "Sheedy" on it so I stopped and met two New Zealand Sheedys, Kevin and Roy, two batchelors in their sixties.
The scenery was amazing with loads of national park and trees.
We got as far as Wanaka passing through the Hast pass and two beutiful lakes.
Tuesday 18th April
Today we went to the Mt. Aspiring national park.
This is at the end of a 50km dead end road.
It was like walking in a moving landscape portrait, really amazing and remote.
