-Got out of Wanaka a little after 7, the clouds were all around us near the ground, and when they weren’t, it was super foggy. I found it pretty, but I wasn’t the one driving through it.
-We made a bathroom stop and went into the café (smallest town yet, like three buildings and some houses) and they were super nice. They had no filtered coffee, but helped me out with figuring out what to order. No trim milk, but I had some of that and splenda in the car. It was like SUPER caffeine. For $4, it was tiny, but it was takeaway (that had added 50cents) so I at least got the lid, and it sent me through the roof. There was a German voice for at least half an hour. I was instantly awake.
-Now on to Fox Glacier! About half hour away, we came along the ocean beach, and for a good ¾ mile along the beach/road, there were rock pilings and branches all set up into designs and formations.
People had all formed these mini altar-esque things with them. A lot of the white rocks had been written on with peoples names and dates. If I had a marker, I would have done it. I could have spent a good hour just walking down the line looking at all the formations and writings on the rocks. It was very cool. There was a seagull that literally followed us down the line. He would sit on a rock very close to us, we would move down a few feet, he would fly down to right in front of us again.
-Fox Glacier was first, and the Access Road, and since you could actually see the glacier and the path to the glacier, we decided to make the trek. Big WIDE path of the glacier. An hour there and back. Climbed over rocks, crossed streams, up shaky paths. It would NEVER happen in the states. Never. Safety hazard waiting to happen. They were safe in the fact that we couldn’t get too close to it. On the way back took a mini side path to one of the melting streams and touched chunks of ice.
-After a very brief Franz Josef Glacier stop, we popped into a Four Square grocery store and I started to put our pita lunch together. Humus, spinach greens, red pepper from the night before’s salad, and deli ham. They were delicious. And then Tim had some more hummus with leftover broccoli and carrots while I had an orange. We each had two of the chocolate Afghan cookies.
-We made it to the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes right at high tide. We felt like we were walking through a corn field with the types of plant and height of the plant that was constantly surrounding us. The rocks themselves were pretty neat. The waves just beating down on them in high tide and seeing all the caves and crevices below the rocks was just as cool as the pancake effect itself. The formations were much bigger than I actually expected them to be. Not the rocks themselves, but there were lots of them in the area.
-A mini mouthwash at the store cost $9.
-Stayed the night in Wesport, at the camp we parked right next to the kitchen. There were two people in there already, so it was rather awkard to make out pita sandwiches, our broccoli/carrot/olive/hummus plate, and heat up the egg pie. They were at the table, so we had to go eat outside. It wasn’t freezing, but I would have rather ate inside.
-I was getting creative for dessert, so I made the apple and banana in a skillet, with the honey and peanut butter and then tim put his in a pita, and I scooped mine up with half a pita. It was seriously awesome.
-Spent time looking up hotels/hostels for our few days in Sydney before Mom arrived, Our biggest hurdle is the flight to Sydney right now. With our luggage the way it is, it just seems impossible. Impossible So we need to work on that tomorrow.
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