The West Coast - Part II

After recovering from our New Years eve shenanigans, we continued North up the West coast. There is not a huge amount to see along this stretch, so the next few days were mainly covering the distance.

On route there was a little stop called Punakaiki, where there is a series of rocks that apparently look like pancakes. As I said, not that much to keep you occupied along this stretch; and these just made us hungry and think of pancakes.

We had some company with us on this stretch as we were giving Joe & Emilie a lift, as they were heading in the same direction. This was also welcome company and meant we didn't have to talk to each other (only joking!)

On route we had a brief stop and walked across New Zealand's longest swing bridge. We then got to our next stop, a sleepy little place called Murchison, nothing special about here, except the hostel we stayed in did meals and desserts....that's right, the night we were there, they had sticky toffee puddings. Now I do pride myself on my "one man quest" to try every sticky toffee pudding I can, in an attempt to find the best. I have to say this ranked in the top 3 (the bench mark and number 1 of course being a Ma Donald special!).

We cracked on north to our next destination Nelson, but before we did we stopped at a placed called Nelson Lakes. Now this was supposed to be a nice walk with sceneic views and wonderful vistas. Our optimism however got the better of us. When we arrived in the carpark, it was cloudy, however it was also early-ish in the morning. So we decided to wait a little while and watch the clouds disappear and reveal the view.
After about 45 minuted we decided to get out of the car and try the walk anyway. Needless to say the weather only got worse and in the end it started to fog over as we climbed higher. All in all a good walk but it wassnt the best views we have seen.

Next stop - Nelson