This time I'd like to introduce to you Aotearoa's Westcoast! (: My hostparents took me there for 2 days and showed me around many different places. They were all new to me and I got very impressed by their beauty and diversity.
Some people say the Westcoast is quite rainy and often the first question you get to hear when you tell people you've been there is: "Did it rain at the Westcoast??" - Well, we just went: "Noooo, it was sunny all the time." :))
We headed off from Christchurch and passed Springfield on the way. Here are some first pictures from our way:
Springfield!
Whose first thought was about "The Simpsons" or "Homer" or maybe "donuts"?? :D
- You guys are all right! Because in this little town there's a monument reminding everyone who drives through of the Simpson family! I think that's awesome:
Of course there must be a café where you can buy these donuts in Springfield ;)
The more we were travelling into the country, the colder got the weather and you could realise a little change of the landscape:
I loved that view with the mountains, partly covered with snow, the clouds and the fog
the café "Jackson's" - apparently quite well-known, I was told
my hostparents in the car at one of our wee photo stops:
Allan, my hostdad, and me at "Londonderry Rock", a huuuuge rock, even to big to fit the size of the picture :D This massive rock weighs 3000-4000 tonnes.
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| ...it's not too heavy for me to hold it though! |
The "Hirstoric Kumara Swimming Baths" -
it was built in 1993-1934 by volunteers and unemployed people and became a popular meeting place for the local community. It was closed in 1940 because it lost its water supply.
In the afternoon we arrived at our accomodation in Hokatika. From out of the window we had a beach view and it took us only 1 minute to walk to the beach!!! That was reaaaaally enjoyable (:
Later we were able to see a gorgeous sunset!!
You could stay there for ages, it was magical...
Later at night we went watching glow worms (: There were hundreds and hundreds of these little animals! Unfortunately you weren't really able to take a picture of them:
The next morning we got up early so that we could see the sun lightening up the sea and the area before it was right in the middle of the sky.
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| a warm morning (: |
After breakfast we had a look around in Hokitika:
a Greenstone factory:
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| Greenstone is a typical New Zealand stone, it has a huge meaning to the Maori; it is often worn as a chain in different symbols in these factories they shape the stones |
Lookout point of Hokitika:
In a neighbour town:
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| memorial monument for the fallen men in the coal mines |
Further on our way...
Here we go: the Punakaki Pancake Rocks!!!
Definitely something I can advise to you! :))
- This is the path you're walking to the rocks, it's like a jungle:
After that we had another view stops and look outs on our way back home, here are some impressions:
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| in love with these waves!! |
See ya later,
Yoko xoxo ♥
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