NZ: Last stop... Greymouth
The last two days of our trip we spent in Greymouth, one of NZ's original gold mining towns on the West Coast of the South Island. We get there the first day after a seven hour drive down the coast. It was rainy and we poked around a bit, eventually heading back to our hostel to generally just be unsociable in a room full of what seemed like very nice and hungry backpackers. I don't really know though. This is only what I could observe from the corner Fuller and I were hunched in. having a nice little pasta dinner nad avoiding eye contact.
The town itself was creepy but we resisted the urge to flee straightaway because we had seen a brocheure about caving and had gotten kind of fixated with it. The next morning we drove up to check out the Pancake rocks (middle pic) this crazy national rock formation. It had been raining quite a bit and the water crashing about in the center of these formations sounded very close to thunder and left you feeling a bit awestruck. Also notable about this stop was we met THE ONLY RUDE PERSON IN NEW ZEALAND. He fixed Lara Fuller a tea, and a proper, yet unjustified, scolding to go with it.
After the Pancake Rocks we went on a little hour hike to some waterfalls. It was just meant to kill time before our caving adventure, but it ended up being a very beautiful trek through the rainforest and we were the only ones on it.
The town itself was creepy but we resisted the urge to flee straightaway because we had seen a brocheure about caving and had gotten kind of fixated with it. The next morning we drove up to check out the Pancake rocks (middle pic) this crazy national rock formation. It had been raining quite a bit and the water crashing about in the center of these formations sounded very close to thunder and left you feeling a bit awestruck. Also notable about this stop was we met THE ONLY RUDE PERSON IN NEW ZEALAND. He fixed Lara Fuller a tea, and a proper, yet unjustified, scolding to go with it.
After the Pancake Rocks we went on a little hour hike to some waterfalls. It was just meant to kill time before our caving adventure, but it ended up being a very beautiful trek through the rainforest and we were the only ones on it.
