It's rained all the time we were on the road today, and it's started again. But that's why the west coast of New Zealand is so green, and it's the first fully wet day we've had, so we're not complaining.
Our first stop was the Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki, which are an interesting sight even without the blowholes spouting water (which only happens at high tide, which we missed). But we did have a close encounter with a nosy Weka in the car park.
After stopping at Hokitika so that Karen could buy some jade we got to our motel at Fox Glacier. Whilst we were unpacking the clouds cleared a bit and we got to see Mt Tasman and/or Mt Cook (we haven't been able to orient ourselves yet) for a short while.
We are booked on a helicopter flight over the glaciers and Mt Cook tomorrow, but at the moment the weather doesn't look promising.
Wow, just taken a look at your Blog - I can't believe you are packing so much in and the photo's really are great, 'specially the whale. As compensation for us back in blighty, the weather in Exmouth today has been lovely and dog has been in and out of the sea. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you get to go on your helicopter flight as I'm sure you will both love that.
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