28 DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND - NELSON - GREYMOUTH

Sunny, 23^rd July 2010, Friday, today is the day I have been waiting for. Yes, I will visit the amazing of Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki via Cape Foulwind. Cape Foulwind is home to a fur seal breeding colony which you will have the chance to view. After driving through Paparoa National Park, we take a stop to visit the famous Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, which is also another pretty amazing sight, especially the sea is in the full swing. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the high tide’s hour for us to view the amazing of the full swing (the best time to view is in the evening btw 6 to 7pm, high tide). According to the witness of the full swing, the water will flush high up to 10 meters from the sea level. We stayed there approximately an hour before go ahead to overnight stop, Greymouth.

Pic1: Me and Liz at Buller Gorge, Pic 2: Punakaiki

At Greymouth, you can choose to join Monteith Brewery tour (typical Kiwi tour), including BBQ dinner (NZ30). It is a great chance to meet some of the interesting local. However, it wasn’t suit for Asian like me, Carol and Ivan. We plan to do a free walk in the city. We walk in to the supermarket for the dinner food. Then, we visited one of a historical railway station in Greymouth, and enjoy the dusk view along the river. We sat on the bench to view the dynamic colour of the sky from blue to purple, from purple to orange and red, then yellow. The day was getting darker and darker. We forced to leave even thought we felt reluctant.

Free style jumping at Cape Foulwind

I spent one night in Neptune Backpacker house. The hostel is not bad and pretty near to the town center. This is the place where I met Choi, an insane Korean-But-Looks-Like-Japanese, who is full of joy and fun.

Clock tower and dusk view at GreyMouth