Next mornign after a fitfull sleep I got woken at 7.30 with are you awake yet? Yep. We had breakfast and I said I was going to head further by myself. Truth be told I prefer certain travelling on my own as I am not dictated to where I can gop beacuse of prior arrangements. So I took myself off along teh coastal road, which is a long windy stratch of road looking over the rugged west coast. The bit from Greymouth to Picton was fantastic.
I stopped at the pankacke rocks at Punakiki to look at the blow holes. These were fantastic and really prietty. Just after seeing the blow holes the californian guy shows up so I say hello and then its off again.
After that I tookmyself to cape foulkwind (love the name) to see a seal colony and the lighthouse. The light house wasn't much to look at but the seals were great. It started raining again to I headed off to westport around that quickly and off to motueka via murchison. I get to moutika quiet late. The campsites great but expensive so I book myself on a boat trip round the tasman abel region for the next day.
Posted by alexd at August 22, 2004 05:58 AM